If I have driven a total of 250,000 miles in my life how far can I travel into outer space?

In comparison to the moon, sun, or closest planet. If another billion people did the same and we all connected our miles where would we be in outer space and would the earths atmosphere survive the polution?

Well.... 250,000 miles is roughly the distance to the Moon.
You should be able to work out the rest of it.
And no, we probably wouldn't be able to survive the pollution ☺

Doug

"To the moon Alice!"

You would make it to the moon. All the cars might make it half way to the nearest star. And the pollution would turn us into Venus. (venus was probably an Earth like world but was turned into a volcanic hell by an irreversibly greenhouse affect... the venus thing was a corny joke :) )

to the moon

the average distance to the moon is 238,856.95 miles
(384,403 km)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

Actualy that would put you right at the moon almost exactly.

That's about the distance to the moon.

>If I have driven a total of 250,000 miles in my life how far can I travel into outer space?

You could go about as far as the Moon, which is roughly 384399 kilometers (238854 miles) away from the Earth.

>If another billion people did the same and we all connected our miles where would we be in outer space

Collectively, you would have gone a total of 250 trillion miles. This is some 42.52776 light years, which means you could go to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, and back five times and have about two trillion miles left over.