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Purpose of the Lightspeed Sector:
To encourage parents/kidlings/students to think about:



Click this text to go to a great website - The Atlas of the Universe.
It will give you a perspective on where you are in the Cosmos
.


- your current speed is 186,282 miles/sec -


It takes you 1 second
to circumnavigate the Earth 7 times.

You are 8 light minutes from the Sun.

You are 3.9 light years from the nearest star, Alpha Proxima.

A Light Year is roughly 6 trillion miles.

You are about 30,000 Light Years from the center of your galaxy.
You live in an average size galaxy roughly 100,000-120,000 Light Years in diameter.

Your sister galaxy, m31 (Andromeda), is about 2.3 million lt. yrs. distant.



Here is a bit of history on lightspeed research.

Albert Abraham Michelson

Carl Sagan - Time Travel / LightSpeed



Approximate Time - Distance Reference:








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