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Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show - internet stuff

On 19 Jul 2010, at 10:58, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> L4 and L5 are about 1AU away (approx. 8 light minutes).
> 
> Yeah, I don't think humans live that long. He's going there for summer
> break, not puberty. How long would it take to reach L1?

The Apollo 11 crew reached the Moon in just over 3 days in 1969, and L1 is about 4 times the distance, so very simplistically about 12 days maximum.  This doesn't take into account that probably half of Apollo 11's flight duration was deceleration on approach to the Moon whereas our characters would be whizzing on past and still accelerating.

Signals between Earth and L1 would take about 5.1-ish seconds each way, based on the Moon being 1.282 light seconds away from Earth and L1 being 4 times the distance.

> 
kozmikreis

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