Originally Posted by
Pete
Whaaaat? You know it only takes 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth and mars is closer than the sun so it would take less than 8 minutes to get to mars at the speed of light.
Thats assuming we're lined up. If we're at opposite ends of our orbits we'd have to fly across the middle of the solar system (essentially across the full diameter of our orbit) and then some. But still, at near light speed it would be a matter of hours at most.