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Sorry. We don't have the technology, and human beings don't last long enough

to make that trip anyway.

Here's a little thought-experiment to put it into some kind of perspective:

-- The nearest galaxy to the one we live in is 2.5 million light years away, in

very rough numbers.

-- Let's say you could somehow average 1 million miles per hour in space ... about

300 times faster than the Apollo astronauts averaged on their way to the moon.

-- At that rate, it would take you 1.68 billion years to reach the nearest galaxy.

-- Knowing this, you might lower the bar, scale back your ambitions, and head for

a closer destination.

Let's say that instead of the closest galaxy outside of ours, you simply head

for the nearest star outside of our solar system, in our own galaxy, at the same

1 million miles an hour. You can reach the nearest star in only 2,800 years !

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