110 miles per second. Only 185,890 miles per second more until warp 1.
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It's going to take time to stabilize the warp bubble before we can do that.
One the most counter-intuitive facts about the solar system is that the hardest place to visit is the Sun. It takes less energy (delta-V) to send a probe on its way to Alpha-Centuri than to the sun.
Can't you do a gravity sling thing?
Can you expand? Is it just because close proximity to the sun is so hostile? Takes more fuel to counter the sun’s “headwind?”
The earth is moving at great speeds around the sun. If you want to go to the sun, you have to brake an equivalent amount. Otherwise you'd just orbit the sun (like the earth does).
So if you want to go to the sun from the earth, first you have to escape the earth, and then you have to counter all its speed.
I don’t want to talk over the original comment, but I believe they were speaking specifically of delta-v, which is ‘change in velocity’. So you have to burn more fuel to visit the sun than you need to go the other way and leave the solar system.
You are correct, that is what they meant
People are really polite here
Definitely faster than a manhole cover
We really need to stop verbing nouns ("blazes"? Really?) but this is cool
What's the matter you've never elbowed your way through a crowd? Pencil in a meeting? Or maybe buttered your bread? English verbs nouns all the time. BTW verb is a noun. So "verbing nouns" is literally verbing the noun "verb."
BTW verb is a noun. So “verbing nouns” is literally verbing the noun “verb.”
...that's the point lol
Well now I feel foolish. That's okay though because I feel this way frequently. I'm used to it.
Rip, happens to the best of us. Hope ya feel better
"Verbing funs English!"
-Calvin and Hobbes
Why? The fun of language is breaking the rules in ways that still make sense.
Merriam-Webster traces the verb form of "blaze" to Middle English, so not exactly a new form of the word:
I figured someone was gonna btfo me with a dictionary link lmao fair enough
Haha I was curious myself so looked it up