Voyage

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Description

voyage intro

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

African (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
as our speed increases four steps. Four powers of 10 reveal a ll the islands of Venice, the Adriatic Sea in the mainland of northern Italy. Six steps take in Europe, from central Germany, across Italy to the Balkans. And some way I can see the entire planet, our whole in space eight steps on our outward journey. Eight powers of 10 and we pass the farthest reaches of human travel. It's a move if we visualise the past of the nine planets take in their orbits around the sun. At 15 steps from ST Mark's Square, the entire solar system comes into view. And with 15 steps £15 of Tim, we can see that our sun is just another star. From here on, our voyage will be measured in light years. The distance light travels in an entire year on ly. Now we fly past our nearest neighbour stars almost five light years away. The same journey at the speed of today's spacecraft would last 100,000 years. As we cross the perpetual night, how avoids takes us up and out of our sun's neighbourhood near the edge of a great pinwheel stars