Ok, I got bored...

[Roadie]

Ok, Here we go... as of, Wednesday, August 31st, 2005. (forgot to take the trash out)



Since the release of S2, we have drove about, 15,710,309 miles.


The distance around the earth is about 24,900 miles.

This means, that we have driven around the earth about 631 times.


The distance to the moon from earth is about 239,227 miles.

This means, that we have driven to the moon about 66 times, or to the moon and back 33 times.


The distance to Mars is about 248.5 million miles from earth..

This means, that we need to keep playing LFS!!!


Do I need a life? maybe...

[xapexcivicx]

It's ok. If I had motivation I would be doing even dumber crap right now. But that is pretty awesome hahah We're all such junkies, I love it.


Edit- Isn't it thursday in Montana?

[Infiniti]

Least your well educated eh? ahaha well I guess if your bored its acceptable.

[Roadie]

nah, its only past 11pm here.. I am only 2 hours behind you.


lol... nothing like, google, excel, and a calculator.

[Vendetta]

Haha thats awesome man!

[KiDCoDEa]

maybe a scaled schematic on the progress ,with earth and the planets would make it even more impressive :)

[the_angry_angel]

hehe, definately ;)

[Bob Smith]

Nice. Although maybe we should aim for Venus first, since that's closer.

We know we're addicts when we hit Alpha Centuri though (4.36 ly).

So the formula V8 will be the first man made object to another solar system. :p

[the_angry_angel]

Eric isnt a man! He's superman!

[mrodgers]

As for my stats, I got the bike out in April and try to ride often as well as riding to work (20 miles 1 way) almost every day. I got S2 in June (or was it July) and I've put more miles on LFS than I have on the bike.

[djellison]

Actually - at closest approach - Mars can be as little as 36 million miles from earth.

That 200 million+ figure is probably the distance covered on a transfer orbit from Earth to Mars for spacecraft like MGS, MRO, and the MER's.

Doug

[Bob Smith]

This is getting off topic but...

Doug, do you mean that's like the Earth-to-Mars-via-the-Sun distance?

[bobvanvliet]

Yup, he's talking about a transfer or "Hohmann" orbit.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Hohmann_transfer_orbit.jpg

See the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_orbit) for more info. :smileypul

[Roadie]

lol, then we still have 15mill miles to go.

[Gizz]

thats a hell of a lot of pitstops folks :bounce8: