JayC
Huh?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/05/23/voyager.2/index.html
According to this article at CNN, the Voyager II has spotted the edge of out solar system. According to NASA, it is 76AU in distance. 1 AU = 93,000,000 miles. I got to thinking, if you were to drive the speed limit of 55 mph, how long would it take to travel to the edge of our solar system? I then wondered how much would it cost in fuel to travel that far. If I did my math right, here are my results (the answers are in bold):
According to this article at CNN, the Voyager II has spotted the edge of out solar system. According to NASA, it is 76AU in distance. 1 AU = 93,000,000 miles. I got to thinking, if you were to drive the speed limit of 55 mph, how long would it take to travel to the edge of our solar system? I then wondered how much would it cost in fuel to travel that far. If I did my math right, here are my results (the answers are in bold):
7,068,000,000 miles to edge of solar system
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55 mph speed limit
7,068,000,000/55
= 128,509,091 hours
24 hrs/day
128,509,091/24
= 5,354,546 days
365 days/year
5,354,546/365
= 14,670 years
_______________
500 miles to tank of gas
500/7,068,000,000
= 14,136,000
20 gal gas tank
$2.77 gal/gas (local; 5-24-06)
20 * $2.77 = $55.40
$55.40 * 7,068,000,000
= $783,134,400