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In approx. 30,000 years, Voyagers 1 & 2 will officially leave our Solar System!

nits74 said:
Good read. The vastness of space never ceases to amaze. And this is just our little solar system. Then there is quantum physics to really blow your mind.
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Yeah, that 30,000 years will be needed to just reach the farthest limit of our solar system (whilst traveling at a speed of 34,000+ mph) just amazed me. As well as being eleven BILLION miles from earth now and not even close to reaching the edge of the solar system after 41 years of flight.
 
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Think about Earth 30000 years ago and how fast technology has advanced. We may pass that satellite and get there with some other prepolsion system in the next 200 years

I can't wait.
 
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Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/voyager-2-probe-moves-into-interstellar-space/

Additionally, by that time, Pitt will have awarded itself about 1200-1300 or so additional National Championships too. And perhaps have won a LEGIT one as well? After further thought, naw! This being a football forum and all, I had to....... :D
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In other sports news of that year, Rutgers fans will be eyeing their first Big80 football championship; Pirate fans will be hoping the Nutting family will finally sell the Pirates; and Penn State basketball team will be just a few Philly recruits away from their first NCAA tourney bid in over 3,000 decades.;)
 
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That didn't sound right so I got my calculator.

34,000 per hour x 24 hours is 816,000 miles per day.

816,000 miles per day x 365 days is 297,840,000 miles per year.

297,840,000 miles per year for 10,000 years is 2,978,400,000,000 miles. Let's round that to 3,000,000,000,000 for ease of usage.

3,000,000,000,000 in 10,000 means 9,000,000,000,000 in 30,000 years.

A light year is 6,000,000,000,000. So it will have to travel 1.5 light years just to leave our solar system? Then our solar system is a defined as being a lot bigger than I thought.

The nearest star (other than the Sun I mean...you're not going to trip me up on that one) is 4.4 light years away. So we have to go 1/3rd the way to the nearest star just to leave our solar system? Wow!
 
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Op2 said:
That didn't sound right so I got my calculator.

34,000 per hour x 24 hours is 816,000 miles per day.

816,000 miles per day x 365 days is 297,840,000 miles per year.

297,840,000 miles per year for 10,000 years is 2,978,400,000,000 miles. Let's round that to 3,000,000,000,000 for ease of usage.

3,000,000,000,000 in 10,000 means 9,000,000,000,000 in 30,000 years.

A light year is 6,000,000,000,000. So it will have to travel 1.5 light years just to leave our solar system? Then our solar system is a defined as being a lot bigger than I thought.

The nearest star (other than the Sun I mean...you're not going to trip me up on that one) is 4.4 light years away. So we have to go 1/3rd the way to the nearest star just to leave our solar system? Wow!
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Dude...you have waaaay to much time on your hands. Go grab a beer!
 
Op2 said:
That didn't sound right so I got my calculator.

34,000 per hour x 24 hours is 816,000 miles per day.

816,000 miles per day x 365 days is 297,840,000 miles per year.

297,840,000 miles per year for 10,000 years is 2,978,400,000,000 miles. Let's round that to 3,000,000,000,000 for ease of usage.

3,000,000,000,000 in 10,000 means 9,000,000,000,000 in 30,000 years.

A light year is 6,000,000,000,000. So it will have to travel 1.5 light years just to leave our solar system? Then our solar system is a defined as being a lot bigger than I thought.

The nearest star (other than the Sun I mean...you're not going to trip me up on that one) is 4.4 light years away. So we have to go 1/3rd the way to the nearest star just to leave our solar system? Wow!
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http://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath
 
fairgambit said:
In other sports news of that year, Rutgers fans will be eyeing their first Big80 football championship; Pirate fans will be hoping the Nutting family will finally sell the Pirates; and Penn State basketball team will be just a few Philly recruits away from their first NCAA tourney bid in over 3,000 decades.;)
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And some will be saying that Chambers just needs a little more time.
 
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Op2 said:
That didn't sound right so I got my calculator.

34,000 per hour x 24 hours is 816,000 miles per day.

816,000 miles per day x 365 days is 297,840,000 miles per year.

297,840,000 miles per year for 10,000 years is 2,978,400,000,000 miles. Let's round that to 3,000,000,000,000 for ease of usage.

3,000,000,000,000 in 10,000 means 9,000,000,000,000 in 30,000 years.

A light year is 6,000,000,000,000. So it will have to travel 1.5 light years just to leave our solar system? Then our solar system is a defined as being a lot bigger than I thought.

The nearest star (other than the Sun I mean...you're not going to trip me up on that one) is 4.4 light years away. So we have to go 1/3rd the way to the nearest star just to leave our solar system? Wow!
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Well, the "Oort Cloud" is effin' huge.
 
Somebody should post the Animal House seen were Pinto is smoking weed with Donald Sutherland...that would be appropriate for this thread.
 
Obliviax said:
Think about Earth 30000 years ago and how fast technology has advanced. We may pass that satellite and get there with some other prepolsion system in the next 200 years

I can't wait.
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Yep. The enterprise will find vger in 200 years
 
Op2 said:
That didn't sound right so I got my calculator.

34,000 per hour x 24 hours is 816,000 miles per day.

816,000 miles per day x 365 days is 297,840,000 miles per year.

297,840,000 miles per year for 10,000 years is 2,978,400,000,000 miles. Let's round that to 3,000,000,000,000 for ease of usage.

3,000,000,000,000 in 10,000 means 9,000,000,000,000 in 30,000 years.

A light year is 6,000,000,000,000. So it will have to travel 1.5 light years just to leave our solar system? Then our solar system is a defined as being a lot bigger than I thought.

The nearest star (other than the Sun I mean...you're not going to trip me up on that one) is 4.4 light years away. So we have to go 1/3rd the way to the nearest star just to leave our solar system? Wow!
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I think they are speculating a bit on the edge of the solar system. The outer edge of the solar system is the outer edge of the Oort Cloud. Nobody knows exactly how big the Oort Cloud is. They probably took the upper and lower limits as theorized to bracket the timing.
 
Obliviax said:
Think about Earth 30000 years ago and how fast technology has advanced. We may pass that satellite and get there with some other prepolsion system in the next 200 years

I can't wait.
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Take the story in every movie and book ever written, combine all their excitement and interest into one and multiply it by a million and it doesn't even begin to be as interesting as the ever-unfolding story of humanity. People just 1,000 years ago would be completely blown away by todays world. For that matter even people a couple hundred years ago would be, or even a hundred. I'd give just about anything to know what things will be like 100, 500 or 1000 years from now.
 
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Thought it was "VGER."

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fkkkjm said:
I think they are speculating a bit on the edge of the solar system. The outer edge of the solar system is the outer edge of the Oort Cloud. Nobody knows exactly how big the Oort Cloud is. They probably took the upper and lower limits as theorized to bracket the timing.
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Well yeah. The Solar System’s cosmographical boundary is defined by the outer limit of Oort Cloud, true. To simplify things, the Sun’s gravitational dominance ends at the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud. And yes, it is the subject of debate (as to the size of the Oort Cloud).
 
LionJim said:
Here are the two things which define "big" for me:
  1. There are as many galaxies as there are stars in the Milky Way, about 1.5 trillion of each.
  2. The average density of the universe is approximately five hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.
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I think I read once that there are as many stars in the universe as there are grains of sand on earth.
 
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LionJim said:
Here are the two things which define "big" for me:
  1. There are as many galaxies as there are stars in the Milky Way, about 1.5 trillion of each.
  2. The average density of the universe is approximately five hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.
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Taking this along a non-cosmological tangent, here's an idea of how big "infinity" is: Euclid knew no later than 250 BC that there are infinitely many primes (he may have had the first proof of this, not sure). Infinitely many primes mean that no matter how large a prime number you choose, you'll find a larger one. What is also true is that you can find as long a run of consecutive non-primes as you want. For example, the integers 32 through 36 inclusive are a run of five consecutive non-primes, with 31 and 37 being prime. Similarly, the integers 212 through 220 make up a run of nine consecutive non-primes. You can find such a run of non-primes as large as you want. Taking this to extremes, there have been approximately 500,000,000,000,000,000 seconds since the Big Bang; there exists a run of 500,000,000,000,000,000 consecutive non-primes. Infinity: big.
 
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LionJim said:
Taking this along a non-cosmological tangent, here's an idea of how big "infinity" is: Euclid knew no later than 250 BC that there are infinitely many primes (he may have had the first proof of this, not sure). Infinitely many primes mean that no matter how large a prime number you choose, you'll find a larger one. What is also true is that you can find as long a run of consecutive non-primes as you want. For example, the integers 32 through 36 inclusive are a run of five consecutive non-primes, with 31 and 37 being prime. Similarly, the integers 212 through 220 make up a run of nine consecutive non-primes. You can find such a run of non-primes as large as you want. Taking this to extremes, there have been approximately 500,000,000,000,000,000 seconds since the Big Bang; there exists a run of 500,000,000,000,000,000 consecutive non-primes. Infinity: big.
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Here's another one in that same vein. 2 to the 103rd power is a big number. How big? Well if you fold a piece of paper 103 times (if it were physically possible) then it's thickness would be 2 to the 103th times as much as a single sheet of paper. How thick would be be? As thick as the known universe.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-piece-of-paper-folded-103-times-will-be-as-thick-as-the-universe
 
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