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The fastest thing we have is about 150,000 mph. the galaxy is about 100,000 light years across.
A light year is about 6 trillion years. So to go from one end of the Milky Way to the other without stopping would take 4,000,000,000,000 (4 trillion) years. The closest galaxy is Andromeda, it's about 2.5 million light years away. So it would take 100 trillion years to get there. The rest of the universe would take quadrillions of years to get to. |
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To put this in perspective, its been over 30-years since Voyager 1 was launched and it is now about 9.5 billion miles away and considered to be the farthest man-made object in space. The nearest star to our Sun is Proxima Centauri (approx. 4.22 light years); so, at that speed it would take about 160,000 years to reach the nearest star. Consequently, unless mankind creates "warp drive" or learns how to bend space, I don't see intergalactic travel any time in humanity's existence.
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