Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 30, 2011
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The most expensive car!? An anonymous buyer paid more than $30 million for a 1936 Bugatti 575C Atlantic in 2010! By driving at 100 miles per hour in a car, if it were possible, it would take more than 28 years to reach the nearest star- proxima centauri! A newly discovered species of armored catfish in the Amazon chews on the wood of fallen trees!
Horace Davenport-Without doing the exact calculations: In your car at 100mph for 28 years you would have come nothing even the remotest close to Proxima Centauri !!!!!! Perhaps that’s an even better indication of how far away it is.Jens Petersen