Big Distance - Talk from Ignite Phoenix 3 - Presentation Transcript
humanity
93,000,000 miles
8 minutes
670,616,629 mph
170 years
Over 2 decades
~250,000 miles
3 days, 3 hrs 49 min
September 21, 2009
March 13, 2009
Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy!
Without precise calculations we could fly right
through a star, or bounce too close to a
supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
4.2 light years!
2.9M miles
• 6 years by car
• 226 days by plane
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We humans have an issue with scale. Popular culture and even popular science has reinforced this bad behavior. My audience will walk away with a MUCH better understanding of how far away is far away, and how very small is the very small. Perspective. Whoa. less
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