Originally Posted By: Orac
Even better when you correct it Bill: 4.16E13 km, so about 3E8 (300,000,000) Jupiters. I'm not sure that it's easier to visualize, but if you scale down Jupiter to the size of tennis ball, then the nearest star would be as far away as the Moon

Well, I was afraid I had gotten it a little wrong, I just whipped through the calculation in my head real fast instead of actually working it out. I didn't think I got it that far off.

Bill Gill

C is not the speed of light in a vacuum.
C is the universal speed limit.