How long would it take...

[Quixfire]

How long would it take to travel to mars at a sub-light speed, say 55-60K miles per second?

 

[Theslowone]

10mins

 

[Broohaha]

use google calculator

 

[DnetMHZ]

Mars Distance from Earth
Minimum (10^5 km) 55.7
Maximum (10^5 km) 401.3

here you go...I don't feel like doing the math right now.

 

[Spooner]

is my Hot Pocket ready yet? 😕

 

[pyonir]

well let's see:

3.32*489x/y^2-43*12xy+4

carry the one...

13 days 21 hours 16 minutes and 38 seconds.

 

[Theslowone]

I did it to the 55million km, since they say mars is suppose to be the closes soon then it has been in 60000 years.

 

[MegaloManiaK]

http://eclipse.span.ch/24ap99.htm


Last may mars was 86.5 million km from the earth, the closest ever. If you traveled during that time period, at 60k miles per second: 1 miles = 1.609344 kilometer. So

60,000 miles X 1.609344km/1mile ~ 96,560.6400000000km per second


86,500,000 / 96,560.64 ~ 895.81 seconds, or 14.9 hours.

60k miles per second is ~ 1/3 the speed of light, which is still darn fast.

 

[GroundZero]

how much lint is in your bellybutton?

 

[Ryan]

Depants on where it's at in it's rotation around the sun.

 

[Theslowone]

86,500,000 / 96,560.64 ~ 895.81 seconds, or 14.9 hours.

This doesn't equal to 14.9 hours it equals to 14.9 mins.