"I..."
Kristina Conway opened her mouth slowly, standing frozen in place, momentarily shocked and at a loss for words. Her brain completely lost its ability to think.
What does a distance of over 7000 light years mean?
A light year, is a distance unit in the universe.
The distance traveled in a vacuum at the speed of light in a straight line for a year, is one light year.
One light year is roughly equivalent to 94 billion kilometers (58 billion miles).
The average walking speed of a human is about 1.1 meters (3.6 feet) per second.
They can walk about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) in an hour.
But to walk a distance of 94 billion kilometers (58 billion miles), one would need about 24 trillion hours, or 2.7 billion years to walk just one light year.
That's the concept of a light year.
The history of the federation doesn't even span 2.7 billion years.
