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If you were driving your Civic at 100 mph toward Andromeda, it would take you about 16.7 trillion years to reach.
The Breakdown
- Distance to Travel 1 light year: 5.88 trillion miles
- Civic's Speed: 100 miles per hour.
- Travel Time in Hours: 58,800,000,000 hours.
- Travel Time in Years: 6.7 million years.
- Andromeda Galaxy:- 2.5 million light-years away from Earth
- Total Time:- 2.5 million x 6.7 million years = 16.7 trillion years
Comparison: That journey is more than 1,200 times longer than the current age of the entire universe.
I'm leaving tmrw afternoon. Anyone up for a ride?
u/Green_Row7273 — 16 days ago