I dont do Strava, just the speed of light

[User16625]

I'm not very fast. No point using strava, the speed of light is more accurate.

I've timed it myself, it takes me between 80-90 minutes to cycle home from work (about 15miles). This is approximately the same time it takes a photon of light to escape the surface of the sun and arrive at Saturday.

For those that are interested the same journey takes light:

8 minutes to Earth
4 hours to Pluto
6.5 hours to Voyager 1
4 Years to proxima centouri
More than a lifetime by car!

 

[User16625]

Ooops, meant Saturn lol!

 

[Roadhump]

If you don't want to use Strava or similar type gizmos, but you are interested in the distance you cover, the website gmappedometer is useful.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

You can plan route to see how far you will cover, or cover a route you have ridden to see how far you have covered.

Looking at the snippets you posted, I was amazed once to hear that whilst Proxima Centauri is 4 light years from Earth, hence it takes 4 years for light to travel either way, at the fastest speed the human race could travel at, with existing technology, it would take 86,000 years for us to travel there.

 

[Racing roadkill]

There's an idea, A 'Strava segment' involving space travel.

 

[Drago]

I'm liking the new avatar Mr Roadkill.

 

[jefmcg]

I'm not very fast. No point using strava, the speed of light is more accurate.

I've timed it myself, it takes me between 80-90 minutes to cycle home from work (about 15miles). This is approximately the same time it takes a photon of light to escape the surface of the sun and arrive at Saturday.

For those that are interested the same journey takes light:

8 minutes to Earth
4 hours to Pluto
6.5 hours to Voyager 1
4 Years to proxima centouri
More than a lifetime by car!

Early in the day to start drinking.

 

[jonny jeez]

Ooops, meant Saturn lol!

Perhaps edit the original so that it makes some kind of sense.

I just wasted a whole hour googling light speed versus time, so that I could look clever and understand your point about arriving in a point of time.

I shall need to travel really fast now to get that hour back.

 

[jefmcg]

googling light speed versus time,

"It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs"

 

[Roadhump]

There's an idea, A 'Strava segment' involving space travel.

Yes, 86,000 years to get there on Voyager 1, how long on your Spesh, Cannondale, Giant, Dawes etc?

 

[Sharky]

The speed of light is often a lot slower than the scientists would have us believe.
Crossed the line at the end of a 10 last year and it was clearly a 26:59, yet it took a whole two seconds for the light to travel 10ft to the timekeeper who recorded 27:01

 

[Drago]

I'm pretty sure I nudged the speed of sound on my Raleigh Chopper. I was experiencing transonic buffeting and the controls weren't responding.

 

[User6179]

Muhammad Ali was so fast that when he turned the light off to get into bed at night he was in bed before it was dark .

 

[palinurus]

The speed of light is often a lot slower than the scientists would have us believe.
Crossed the line at the end of a 10 last year and it was clearly a 26:59, yet it took a whole two seconds for the light to travel 10ft to the timekeeper who recorded 27:01

The exact same thing happened to me, that makes it data.

 

[captain nemo1701]

I'm not very fast. No point using strava, the speed of light is more accurate.

I've timed it myself, it takes me between 80-90 minutes to cycle home from work (about 15miles). This is approximately the same time it takes a photon of light to escape the surface of the sun and arrive at Saturday.

For those that are interested the same journey takes light:

8 minutes to Earth
4 hours to Pluto
6.5 hours to Voyager 1
4 Years to proxima centouri
More than a lifetime by car!

lightspeed...pah!.

Try warp drive: