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Bladerunner70
MemberOvomorphJun-11-2012 12:54 AMWow, that is one fast Spacecraft! If my numbers are correct, the PROMETHEUS was traveling [b]34.64011428209031 times the speed of light[/b] to reach LV223.
Here's my math:
327,000,000,000,000 = 327 trillion kilometers to LV223
327 trillion kilometers x 0.621371192 to convert Km to Miles
203,188,379,784,000 miles
Speed of Light = 186,000 miles per second
Distance light travels in one day = 186,000 x 3600 x 24 = 16,070,400,000
16,070,400,000 x 365 = 5,865,696,000,000 miles (distance light travels in one year)
Therefore: 203188379784000 / 5865696000000 = 34.64011428209031 years to travel @ speed of light to LV223.
That's fast. And isn' the system LV223 is supposed to be in "realatively" close to earth?
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bholland83
MemberOvomorphJun-11-2012 8:14 PMI was looking for the distance from Earth to LV223 that was captioned in the movie and found your post! My dad is an astronomer and just to humour ourselves were curious to determine how far this fictional location was supposed to be from Earth. Based on your information, it's about 35 light years away which, in the galactic scheme of things is NOTHING considering our galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years wide!!! 35 light years away, for example, is the distance to the star Arcturus. Regarding your math, however, am I mistaken that they actually traveled at 17 times the speed of light to go the distance of 34 years in 2 years? Do you remember exactly how long it took them? it was roughly 2 years right?
RK
MemberOvomorphSep-19-2012 3:08 PMI question your math considering you can't spell 'relatively'. lol
joeyjoe
MemberOvomorphSep-19-2012 5:39 PMdid prometheus embark for lv 223 from earth? i dont think we know the answer to that? We do know that many planets have been colonized by the time the crew of prometheus sets out towards lv 223. Weylands little holographic introduction/orientation was recorded on mars for example.
BigDave
MemberDeaconSep-19-2012 6:04 PMThe Distance is not far on the scale of our Galaxy and we are not talking simply 100'000 Light Years across.
Not in the same sense as it is to walk that distance, as the Galaxy is like a Body of Water and that it is not about one pane and so like the sky around us you can move up and down, so that makes the Galaxy much more vast than that.
Its not like say lining up as many grains of sand as you can on top of a 1 Meter Square Table but more like how much you can get inside a 1 Meter Cube.
And in the scale of the Galaxy 34 Light Years is not so far, when you look at the Stars the closest Star to us apart from our Sun is only just over 4 Light years away.
So really they only traveled 8X further than our closest Star (aside from SOL).
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