Just A Little Jaunt Around The Solar System

Out there
In the vast reaches of space
Roughly 123 times the distance between 
Earth and the Sun
Billions and billions of miles from
                   Pasadena, California
                   Where it was built
Voyager 1 continues it's mission
And sends back to Earth
What it learns

For over 35 years 
The space probe has been wandering
                  It has visited Jupiter
                  And Saturn too
It transmits messages back home at the speed of light 
It currently takes over 16 hours for those messages to get here

It is traveling faster
Than any man made object ever has
A blistering 38,000 miles per hour
If it doesn't collide with anything
                  It will travel one light year
In just a little over 17,500 more years

The nearest star to the sun our blue marble circles
Is Proxima Centauri, roughly 4.2 light years away
If Voyager 1 was headed in that direction
It would take almost 74,000 years to get there
                  Which, if you are wondering
                  Is approximately 6 times longer 
Than Homo sapiens have cultivated plants

Astronomers have found 853 planets
Outside of our solar system
54 or so may have "habitable zones"
Where life similar to ours may be possible
                  The closest of these planets is 22 light years away
Which means it would take over 403,000 years
For the fastest object ever made by man to get there

Quite a time-consuming voyage to undertake
                 To steal a cow
                 Or probe Billy Bob's ass