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It says at my marathon pace it's going to take me 4768 years to get to Jupiter and 9673 years to get to Saturn. I hope the planets are in the expeditious alignment they were in when the Voyagers launched..
Meanwhile, in case you imagined that Space is a cold, dark void, here's the artist's impression of Voyager 1 in the Caribbean, um, I mean Surfing the Edge of the Solar System
If you start off at your sprinting pace, and then free-wheel (no air friction) to the moon. This could sling-shot you to Mars and hence on to the gas giants. I reckon you could be there in the low thousands of years.
Does it calculate how many gels you'll need?
Are taped seams mandatory for this long but steady space-travel?
Poacher turned game-keeper
Depends if you want to end up like this quote from the Wiki page for Arthur C Clarke, 3001: The Final OdysseyOriginally Posted by Derby Tup
And if you think you're that lucky!
3001 follows the adventures of Frank Poole, the astronaut who was killed by the HAL-9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey by tearing his spacesuit open and casting him on a trajectory into deep space. One thousand years later, Poole's freeze-dried body is discovered out in the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune by a human spaceship, a comet-collecting space tug named the Goliath. The advanced medical science and technology of that age is able to bring Poole back to life. Being freeze-dried and then kept near absolute zero for the intervening centuries preserved Poole's body and brain well enough for him to make a full recovery.
Hmm, that'll come in handy for dodging an HMRC tax bill.
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