It Will Take You 6-months To Get To The Moon If There Were Roads And You Drive At 62-mph

Did you know that it will take you about 6-months to get to the moon if there were roads and you drive at 62-mph.

A car moving at 62 mph will travel a distance of 238,855 miles in 6 months – which is the distance from Earth to the moon.

Back in the late 1970s, English astronomer, Fred Hoyle, explained that it would take about an hour to get into outer space if we could drive a car upwards at 100 km/hr (62 mph). The outer space begins at around 100 km (62 miles) straight up from the Earth’s surface.

“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards”, Fred Hoyle was quoted saying this in a Sayings of the Week column from The Observer in 1979.

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But what if there are highways from planet Earth to our closest neighbour, the Moon?

It would take a car moving at a constant speed of 62 mph about 6 months to travel a distance of 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers), which is the distance from Earth to the moon.

Travelling by car to the Moon while maintaining a speed of 60 mph would take as long as driving around the Earth 10 times – our planet’s circumference is roughly 24,850 miles (40,000 kilometers).

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