[ExI] Life must be everywhere!

Anders Sandberg anders at aleph.se
Sat Apr 14 17:43:56 UTC 2012


On 2012-04-14 19:32, BillK wrote:
> 2012/4/14 Tomaz Kristan wrote:
>>>    Escape velocity for Solar System is 525 km/s. This is how fast - at a
>>> minim
>>
>> Not true. More than 10 times less.
>>
>> Still I agree with what are you saying.
>>
>>
>
> You need to correct Wikipedia then.   ;)
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity>

Yes, it needs to be corrected. The reference is to a paper talking about 
the escape velocity for stars from the Milky way, not the solar system.


-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University



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