How far is a milliton?

albedo039 · Post by **albedo039** » Tue May 07, 2002 7:51 pm

how far is a milliton, anyone know?(Edited by albedo039 at 9:53 pm on May 7, 2002)

Post by **AndyThomas** » Tue May 07, 2002 8:38 pm

The Look In article mentions it, but just as "a measure of distance". Mike's derivation is reasonable - 100 * 1000 - but 100,000 what I'm not sure! I'd have to listen to a clip in context. Probably 100,000 kilometres - when you're talking about measurements in space you have to think big! What's bugging me is that I've got this memory of a character explaining a military term for a distance but I can't attribute it to a particular show! Might have been Space Above and Beyond I was thinking of - they used MSKs as a measurement I think...

felice · Post by **felice** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 10:31 pm

I'd guess a thousandth of a lightyear, or something vaguely comparable to a lightyear. I seem to recall values of thousands of millitons being used for interstellar distances. What are the smallest milliton distances used in the series?