Dribble by Chuck Ferris

I amuse myself by asking odd questions and then working them out. 

For instance, I asked myself: The sun is 93 million miles away from Earth. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Expressed in hours, how long does it take light from the sun to reach the Earth?

I will work it out and post the answer I get in comments below.  However, I have to go breakfast, and knowing the lack of speed with which I work, it may not be the first comment. Post yours if you want to play along.

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• #13 Comment from jmorancoyle 
  9/22/07 6:34 PM | Permalink

      I did work this out. Paul is right.
  Jude
  http://journals.aol.com/jmorancoyle/MyWay
• #12 Comment from plittle 
  9/22/07 8:28 AM | Permalink

    Well, the answer is 8 minutes. So, 8/60=0.13 hours. However, I didn't work that answer out, I just remember learning it so many years ago, so props to the commenter who actually did the math.
  -Paul
  http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
  
• #11 Comment from tendernoggle 
  9/21/07 10:29 PM | Permalink

  YOU KNOW SOMETHING CHUCK?? YOU ARE ONE OF THE SMARTEST PEOPLE THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWN!
  LOVE YA,
  CARLENE
• #10 Comment from bamawmn46 
  9/21/07 6:10 PM | Permalink

  I'm glad someone figured it out. I didn't want to have to think about it!!
  Jackie
• #9 Comment from quiltsnroses 
  9/21/07 12:24 PM | Permalink

  Definitely a guy question.  Hurts my head just to read the question-LOL.