If you were to fly in a jet traveling at 885 km/h (550 mph) it would take you 19 YEARS to reach the Sun. In comparison, it would take about 18 days to reach the Moon.
A photon of light makes the journey from the Sun to Earth in just 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
Ali G asks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwARY7Kk8ek&t=37s
share"There's a horse on Venus?"
That was great.
Another fun fact, the sun is 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times farther. That's why both appear to have the same size viewed from Earth.
shareAir density is 1 kg/m³ at 1 km altitude in 25°C temperature when air pressure at sea level is 1 bar. Neat.
shareYou'd have to pack a lot of sandwiches for that trip.
shareJohn Young had the same idea!
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-astronaut-smuggled-sandwich-space
According to Young, his contraband corned-beef sandwich was thanks to astronaut Wally Schirra, who had it prepared at a restaurant in Cocoa Beach before Gemini 3 launched. Schirra was well known as a practical joker. Young said Grissom was “bored” with the official menus that they had practiced with in training, and packing a sandwich for the trip “seemed like a fun idea at the time.”
It was not, as it turned out, quite so fun. When the Gemini astronauts got hungry, Young pulled out the smuggled sandwich. In the transcripts of the Gemini 3 mission, Young tells Grissom, “Let's see how it tastes. Smells, doesn't it?” When Grissom took a bite, “crumbs of rye bread started floating all around the cabin,” he told Life.
I just had a corned beef sandwich for lunch today. Although I didn't go into space.
shareI don't want to fly to the sun anyway. I'd burn up. I dont like it over 80 fahrenheit.
sharethe nearest star (I think), proxima centauri, is ~25 trillion miles away. Traveling at 550mph, it would take a space ship
~5.2 million years to get there (if my math is correct). :(
Space is fake.
Prove me wrong.