User:MewhyIsCool

A Man with big dreams about space who wants to give back to the community who gave him his knowledge. An average person can run 11 miles per hour, but theoretically if you where the fastest runner ever the fastest you would physically be able to go would be 30 miles per hour. This is one forth as fast as a normal car at top speed, which can go about 120 miles per hour. The top speed of Space Shuttle Discovery is 17,400 miles per hour. The closest star to earth is in the system Alpha Centauri, the location of this star is approximately 4.24 light years away. Light travels at 5.87861e12 (or 5,878,610,000,000) miles per YEAR. So if you do the math, which I have already done, it would take Space Shuttle Discovery 1,432,488,873.56 hours to get to Proxima Centauri, the closest star, that is equivalent to 163,417.78 years!