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PostTue Nov 26, 2002 6:29 pm    Lightyear

Hey Trekkers!

I am probably going to sound like a moron to all of you, and some of you might not believe me, but...

What is a lightyear? I mean through out Voyager, it's 70,000 light years from home, how big is a light year?

I feel like an idiot.


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PostTue Nov 26, 2002 7:05 pm    

I dont know, sorry.


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PostTue Nov 26, 2002 7:29 pm    

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers

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PostTue Nov 26, 2002 10:36 pm    

Yes ^ is right the distence light travles in one year.


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PostWed Nov 27, 2002 12:22 am    

it is 300,000 km/s, or 1080000000 km/h.

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PostWed Nov 27, 2002 12:53 pm    

oh debate, both of you are corect though, one of those numbers is how far light travles in one year through air, the other is through a vacume


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PostWed Nov 27, 2002 7:49 pm    

i know that the closest star to earth is about 2.3 lightyears away


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PostThu Nov 28, 2002 1:19 pm    

right... well this time im not gonna say that chocho will lock this


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PostThu Nov 28, 2002 8:58 pm    

8472 wrote:
i know that the closest star to earth is about 2.3 lightyears away


no, that doesen't sound quite right. alpha centuri is 4.4 LY


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PostThu Nov 28, 2002 9:20 pm    

um the colest star to earth can be seen on a good day but it hurts your eyes to look at it


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PostFri Nov 29, 2002 12:50 am    Re: Lightyear

roman wrote:
Hey Trekkers!

I am probably going to sound like a moron to all of you, and some of you might not believe me, but...

What is a lightyear? I mean through out Voyager, it's 70,000 light years from home, how big is a light year?

I feel like an idiot.

A ligthyear is how far ligth travels in a year. Its really damn fast but i dont know exactly.



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PostFri Nov 29, 2002 12:52 am    

so about voyager,from were they were,it woudl take ligth 70,000 years to reach earth from there.
kinda strange,like a star that was just born there,we wouldnt see until 70,000 years later.Quite amazing



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PostFri Nov 29, 2002 12:54 am    

PrankishSmart wrote:
8472 wrote:
i know that the closest star to earth is about 2.3 lightyears away


no, that doesen't sound quite right. alpha centuri is 4.4 LY

alpha centari is not the closest star to our own, alpha proxima is,its 2.3 lithyears away.



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PostFri Nov 29, 2002 1:41 am    

PhionexAlpha wrote:
PrankishSmart wrote:
8472 wrote:
i know that the closest star to earth is about 2.3 lightyears away


no, that doesen't sound quite right. alpha centuri is 4.4 LY

alpha centari is not the closest star to our own, alpha proxima is,its 2.3 lithyears away.


i am pretty sure that the closest star is 4.4 light years away, but maybe this is alpha proxima. 2.3 light years is wrong for the closest star, no star is that close.


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PostFri Nov 29, 2002 7:24 pm    

actually the closest star to earth is 2.3 lightyears away and thats not close at all (I know this for a fact)


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PostFri Nov 29, 2002 7:54 pm    

NIKKI13 wrote:
The distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers
Thanks, now I know!


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PostSat Nov 30, 2002 4:34 am    

8472 wrote:
actually the closest star to earth is 2.3 lightyears away and thats not close at all (I know this for a fact)


Maybe you should check your facts. Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth after the Sun lying approximately 4.4 light-years away.


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PostSat Nov 30, 2002 4:30 pm    

come to think of it, i nvr really knew how much a light year is well, supposed to take voyager wad, 70 yrs to travel 70 000 lightyears at top speeds


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PostTue Dec 03, 2002 11:08 pm    

micthe torres wrote:
um the closest star to earth can be seen on a good day but it hurts your eyes to look at it
OMG!! that is so funny!!!!!!!


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PostMon Jan 06, 2003 3:26 pm    LightYear

A Light Year is Like a Mile. But in Warp Terms.


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PostMon Jan 06, 2003 10:55 pm    

Proxima Centauri is 4.2 ly away.

Alpha Centauri is 4.3 ly away.

2.2 ly away is probably still in the Oort Cloud.



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PostMon Jan 20, 2003 1:40 pm    

Use your imagination to fill in the gapes The light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach planet Earth. How far would the light have gone in an hour? How far after a day? How far by a Month? Then multiply that distence by 12, and then by 70,000!!

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PostMon Jan 20, 2003 9:08 pm    

The closest star to Earth, techically, is that big orange light in the sky which we musn't look at ........ the nearest star to our solar system is Alpha Centauri at 4.22 light years.

Back on the topic, a light year is 9.4605 times 10 to the power of 15 kilometers long, which is 63,240 Astronomical units.



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PostMon Jan 20, 2003 11:13 pm    

Light years is indictive of how long it takes from one star to the next in a year. The actual speed is ALOT faster, like billions of kilometers per second.


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PostTue Jan 21, 2003 2:21 pm    

Los wrote:
Light years is indictive of how long it takes from one star to the next in a year. The actual speed is ALOT faster, like billions of kilometers per second.


3 times 10 to the power of 8 kilometers per second.



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