NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe reached 100 AU from the sun. For all the non-scientific types out there, an AU was the coined acronym for “Astronomical Unit”. Way back in the day when we believed the Earth was the center of the Universe (which is bullshit, I’m the center of the universe), scientists determined the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Of course we all know the Sun is approximately 150,000,000 kilometers (about 93,000,000Â miles) away. So 150,000,000 kilometers = 1 AU.

So the Voyager 1 is: (100 x 150,000,000km) away from the sun. That’s 15 billion kilometers from the sun, or 9.3 billion miles away. You know what’s cool? It’s still sending data (albeit limited data) back to the 10 scientists at NASA, right here on the good ol’ Earth.

It’s taken the Voyager 1 craft 30 years to get that far, which makes the average speed of the craft = approximately 1 million miles per 24-hour day. That’s fuckin’ fast. So, this sort of begs the question at 30, what have you done (or will have done) with your life? I’ll bet it’s not to visit the edge of our solar system!