[TML] If They Only Had Jump Drive

[Douglas Berry]

At 06:09 PM 8/20/2007, shadow at shadowgard.com raced into the room, and 
announced the following:
>On 20 Aug 2007 at 18:14, David Smart wrote:
>
> > Five days ago, Voyager 1 reached Sol's jump limit. And Voyager 2 is
> > fast approaching it (at 1 million miles per day).
> >
> > http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyagerf-20060815.html
>
>Nope, they were never inside Sol's jump limit. 100 solar diameters is
>*inside* Earth's orbit.
>
>100 AU is 100 times the radius of Earth's orbit.
>
>1 parsec is roughly 200,000 AU. :-)

The jump line is 100 solar *diameters.* The sun's diameter is 870,000 
miles. So the jump line is 87,000,000 miles from the sun, or 
somewhere inside Earth's orbit.


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