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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
20.5 lightyears is 1.93940832 × 10^14 kilometers. Our current rate of travel for deep space probes is at maximum, around 20 km/s (which is already generous, the rockets and probes sent from the 60s-current were all around 10-15 km/s in top speed only)...so basically it would take 9.69704162 × 10^12 seconds to get there or, if my calulations are right, 307,287.269 years!
Then again, I just read another article that said it would take roughly 5 billion years of travel so I don't know if I'm correct.
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Err, maybe two packs of smokes and a esso extra card for the trip Frank.
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