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b_b  ·  4664 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tinkering with the Pillars of Creation
I agree with your calculation.

To put it simpler for the non math sorts: each tiny box = 1000AU





caio  ·  4664 days ago  ·  link  ·  
You're both right. Dammit, math strikes again. Okay, so let me try to make this right. Here we go.

Each box is 1000 AU, so inside each box we would have, roughly, the same distance as:

  500,000 trips to the moon
  34 trips from Earth to Neptune
  8 Voyager 1 missions as of February 2012.
Plus, Carl Sagan explaining what would happen if we travelled at the speed of light. http://youtu.be/lPoGVP-wZv8
b_b  ·  4664 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Or, 10,000,000,000,000 trips to the kitchen to get another snack while you're watching Sagan on TV.

(Assuming 25ft from the couch to the fridge => ~100 round trips/mi and 100,000,000 mi/AU, roughly speaking, of course).

caio  ·  4664 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Assuming each trip takes one minute (I suggest crackers since the'yre faster to grab), it would take 525,600,000,000,000 years for us to cross the distance. Which, considering the age of the universe as 13,000,000,000 years, would take around 40,400 universes at that speed.

Now that's a lotta crackers.

b_b  ·  4664 days ago  ·  link  ·  
But still, math aside, its a bad ass scaling. Nice work.