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Lydia Leftcoast

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Sun Aug-07-05 11:38 PM
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105. It would be amazing if there WEREN'T life elsewhere in the universe

However, the nearest star is four light years away, which means that it would take four years to get there traveling at the speed of light, which is about 66 million miles an hour.

I just googled the speed of the Saturn rockets that powered the flights to the moon, and they traveled at about 24,000 miles an hour.

At that rate, it would take 2,700 years to reach the nearest star.

The aliens would have to have some unimaginable technology to reach our little planet.

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