ANSWERS: 9
  • You can't get to the sun... you would evaporate before you reached it...
  • If you are ray of light, you will take about 8 min to get there.
  • However long it takes you to get to the newsagent. Just pick it up from the rack - don't forget to pay.
  • The Sun is approximately 92,950,000 miles away. Going at the speed of light (186,282.397 mps), about 8 mins 18.6 secs. Walking there (3 mph), about 358 days 14 hrs 28 mins 53.76 secs (about a week shy of a year).
  • Unlike 'farino' my calculator is actually working! Walking to the sun would take (without stopping to have a rest) about three and a half thousand years i.e. 92 million miles @ 3 miles per hour = 31 million hours = 1.3 million days = 3,500 years
  • Not too long if you have a Skyrocket like me!
  • Depends on how fast you're going...
  • You guys must be learning that new math... Jimbob was right on. Here goes. First, the distance between Earth and our Sun is not constant, so a constant was created for arguments sake. One Astronomical Unit (AU) is the agreed upon distance between Earth and the Sun, and is equal to 92,955,820.5 miles. Wiki says average walking speed is 3 miles per hour (mph), that’s good enough for me. Earth’s escape velocity is just about 25,000 mph. This means that anything moving slower than that is not able to overcome Earth’s gravitational pull (think tractor beam). The speed of light, in a vacuum, is equal to 670,616,628.2 mph. The perhaps not so obvious problem with this question is the space travel does not occur in a straight line. Light almost does but rockets and feet certainly do not. With all that we get the following somewhat whimsical results for the times it would take to complete the trip to our Sun. On foot: 92955820.5m/3mph=30985300h/24hpd= 1,291,050 days At this point I think remaining hours, minutes and seconds are moot. By rocket: 92955820m/25000mph=3718.23h/24hpd=154.926d 0.926d*24hpd=22.224h 0.224h*60minph=13.44min 0.44min*60spmin=26.4s So… 154 days 22 hours 13 minutes 26 seconds as the crow, um…photon flies. Now for light: 92955820.5m/670616628.2mph=0.138612h*60minph=8.31675min 0.31675m*60spmin=19.005s So… 8 minutes and 19 seconds, give or take. There are some rounding errors due to long conversions for demonstration purposes.
  • 1) "Because the Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, there cannot be an exact figure, but the average distance is 93 million miles." Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_far_is_the_Earth_from_the_Sun 2) "Mean distance from Earth 1.496×10^11 m 8.31 min at light speed " Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun How much time will be needed depends on your velocity. 3) "How Long to Drive to the Sun? If there were a highway from the Earth to the Sun, how long would it take to get to the Sun, driving at 65 miles per hour? If the highway is straight, and you drive non-stop 24 hours a day with no meal or bathroom breaks, it should take 163 years and 120 days to get to the Sun from the Earth: 93,000,000 miles/65 mph = 1,430,769 hours 1,430,769/24 hours in a day = 59,615 days 59,615/365 days in a year = 163 years and 120 days If you figure out how to do this with current gas prices, please let us know!" Source: http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html

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