# Question about space travel/light speed. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222 "2014-04-28T23:15:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Space\_Trucker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Space\_Trucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Trucker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/1 "2014-04-28T23:15:25Z")
Light speed? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/2 "2014-04-28T23:26:58Z")
> [@Space\_Trucker](#): > > Light speed? 186,000 miles per second? What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/3 "2014-04-28T23:49:46Z")
You win a carton of magnetic monopoles. For safety reasons, we can’t ship them to you; you’ll have to come to Epsilon Puppis to pick them up. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/4 "2014-04-29T00:19:56Z")
300,000 km/sec - not just a good idea, it’s THE LAW. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/5 "2014-04-29T00:38:36Z")
Better than Heavy Speed. That stuff’s murder on the veins. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/6 "2014-04-29T00:48:58Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > 186,000 miles per second? What do I win? That’s only what we’ve observed inside the hollow earth we live in. Light speed on the outside is anybody’s guess. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/7 "2014-04-29T01:02:11Z")
> [@Space\_Trucker](#): > > Light speed? Light speed is too slow, we’re going to have to go straight to \*ludicrous speed. \* ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/8 "2014-04-29T01:04:57Z")
In the LORAN bidness, we used 6.182 usec/nautical mile. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/9 "2014-04-29T01:37:06Z")
> [@Space\_Trucker](#): > > Light speed? For those who want to taper off of crystal meth. It’s only 60% as addictive and slows the rate of tooth loss to 45% that of regular. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/10 "2014-04-29T01:38:08Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Light speed is too slow, we’re going to have to go straight to \*ludicrous speed. \* This thread is going straight to plaid in 3, 2, 1. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/11 "2014-04-29T03:20:57Z")
> [@Google Calculator](#): > > the speed of light = [1.8026175 × 10[sup]12[/sup] furlongs per fortnight](http://www.google.com/search?q=c+in+furlongs+per+fortnight) This. ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-space-travel-light-speed/687222/12 "2014-04-29T04:25:02Z")
Appears great on paper but is puny compared to the distances out there. A billion years at light speed gets you about 2% across the Universe. _Pathetic._