Trivia Question: How far away is the moon?

[MidgetClown]

Today, January 24, 2013 the moon is clearly visible in the United States.

That is what prompted me to make this thread.

Without using Google, how far away do you think it is?

 

[Cade Is Here]

 

[MidgetClown]

The Pink Floyd album "Dark Side of the Moon" is one of my favorites.

 

[MidgetClown]

Pink Floyd

 

[MidgetClown]

David Gilmore

Thank you for purchasing our albums.

I am a millionaire thanks to you...

 

[MidgetClown]

Thank you for purchasing our albums.

I am a millionaire thanks to you...

We love your songs David.

Our favorite Pink Floyd album is Meddle.

Carry on dude.

 

[MidgetClown]

 

[RoryN]

I am a paid poster, who works with CIH, and has for years.

That is what prompted me to make this thread.

We got that.

 

[KyleW]

Pink floyd was wrong. There is no dark side of the moon. I learned that by listening to startalk.

 

[shoulderblade]

Attention. As your only voter so far I just picked the only number that seemed familiar.

 

[sweepthefloor]

It is the distance that measures true love.

 

[SeaDaddy1]

Without googling? It's the same distance from the moon to earth as it is from earth to the moon. Simple logic.

 

[Balladeer08]

Today, January 24, 2013 the moon is clearly visible in the United States.

That is what prompted me to make this thread.

Without using Google, how far away do you think it is?

Nice to see that 7 people got it right, only 1 wrong so far.

Read a nice little comparison that helps make interstellar distances somewhat more comprehensible.

If you scale it so the distance from Earth to the Sun is 1", then Jupiter is 4" away, Pluto 40", and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, 4.2 miles.

That 266,112 inches.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Pink floyd was wrong. There is no dark side of the moon. I learned that by listening to startalk.

You could have learned that just by listening to the album.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Apollo 12

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

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[Octavian]

Nice to see that 7 people got it right, only 1 wrong so far.

Read a nice little comparison that helps make interstellar distances somewhat more comprehensible.

If you scale it so the distance from Earth to the Sun is 1", then Jupiter is 4" away, Pluto 40", and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, 4.2 miles.

That 266,112 inches.

Another figure. My granddaughter asked how long it would take to drive to the sun. If we travelled at 70 miles per hour, 24 hours a day, every day of the year and never had to stop-----it would take almost 156 years!

 

[hobbit.]

Another figure. My granddaughter asked how long it would take to drive to the sun. If we travelled at 70 miles per hour, 24 hours a day, every day of the year and never had to stop-----it would take almost 156 years!

Sorry to break this to you, but you would actually die before you got there.

 

[MidgetClown]

You say that again Alice and I swear you are going to the moon!

 

[Balladeer08]

Another figure. My granddaughter asked how long it would take to drive to the sun. If we travelled at 70 miles per hour, 24 hours a day, every day of the year and never had to stop-----it would take almost 156 years!

93,000,000 miles on one tank of gas? Damn!

 

[TJcurious]

None of those numbers can be right....it can't be that far....I can see it from my house in Tampa FL, but I can't see Orlando, and that's only about an hour away.

 

[Octavian]

Sorry to break this to you, but you would actually die before you got there.

Yes, that could be a problem----but I can think of a more pressing one; one that could occur after no more than 2 hours into the journey.

Namely the children constantly asking if we're nearly there yet!

 

[Byron In Exile]

93,000,000 miles on one tank of gas? Damn!

If you were in space, moving at 70 mph, you would keep moving forever.

You wouldn't need gas.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Not very far at all.

 

[Byron In Exile]

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