In most movies, traveling to another solar system takes about as long as a cross-country road trip. In reality, the distance between planetary bodies is so great that it would take much longer than the average lifespan of a human to reach them.
The nearest star to the sun is still 25 trillion miles away from Earth. Even NASA's fastest rocket would take over 100,000 years to get there.
Ten Ways Space Travel Isn't Like Television or the Movies.
(via Neatorama)
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