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Our Milky way is vast..we sit roughly half way along the length...
Our Galaxy is 1 of billions in the known universe...yes 1 of 1,000,000,000`s

It would take a Jumbo jet how long in years to cross just our galaxy...

answers with a gasp of astonishment to be posted here
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ps ..to make it easier lets have the answers in Light years, that is the distance light travels in 1 year, which is 186,000 miles per second.

A light nanosecond -- the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second -- is about 1 foot (about 30 cm).

So 1 Light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles .

so how long 1 jumbo jet to cross our Milky way ??????? in light years ??
 
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Rush said:
Our Milky way is vast..we sit roughly half way along the length...
Our Galaxy is 1 of billions in the known universe...yes 1 of 1,000,000,000`s

It would take a Jumbo jet how long in years to cross just our galaxy...

answers with a gasp of astonishment to be posted here
bowdown.gif
.

ps ..to make it easier lets have the answers in Light years, that is the distance light travels in 1 year, which is 186,000 miles per second.

A light nanosecond -- the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second -- is about 1 foot (about 30 cm).

So 1 Light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles .

so how long 1 jumbo jet to cross our Milky way ??????? in light years ??
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How big is the Mily Way...?
 
More pertinent is wondering how long it takes a DLR train to get from Greenwich to Canary Wharf :D

And that question's silly, a Jumbo Jet would run out of fuel before it even got to Uranus.
 
Travelling at 550mph it would take 12,174,500 years. :thumb: Of course if it had a tail wind it would be a bit less. :D

And, it doesn't allow for leap years. :p
 
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Driving back from the pub I thought "I've got this wrong by a factor of 1000"

It should be 12,174,500,000 years. :thumb: God knows what the air would be like on that Jumbo.
 
floppybootstomp said:
More pertinent is wondering how long it takes a DLR train to get from Greenwich to Canary Wharf :D

And that question's silly, a Jumbo Jet would run out of fuel before it even got to Uranus.
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It would probably be quicker to walk there...:p
 
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