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To: 2ndDivisionVet
> ... velocity of spacetime expansion during the period of cosmological inflation was about 30 million billion times the speed of light...

And here I thought the speed of light was the universal speed limit. Travel 30 million billion times faster???!?

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Interstellar Highway Patrol Officer: Do you know why I stopped you?

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4 posted on 11/24/2012 1:40:41 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored
Interstellar Highway Patrol Officer: Do you know why I stopped you?

Actually officer, I'd like to know how you stopped me.

7 posted on 11/24/2012 1:42:22 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: dayglored

Even if we could build a vessel that could travel at 0.1% of the speed of light, we can colonize this entire solar system at will.


10 posted on 11/24/2012 1:45:40 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: dayglored

It’s the universal speed limit for material objects; spacetime isn’t a material object.


12 posted on 11/24/2012 1:46:43 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: dayglored

Q. Interstellar Highway Patrol Officer: Do you know why I stopped you?

A. When?


53 posted on 11/24/2012 2:42:10 PM PST by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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To: dayglored
186,000 miles per second, it' s not just a good idea, it's the law

CC

56 posted on 11/24/2012 2:46:34 PM PST by Celtic Conservative
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To: dayglored

(Red background bumper sticker)

If this sticker is blue you are driving WAY too fast!


68 posted on 11/24/2012 3:28:42 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: dayglored

Can you imagine the stop-spike-strip the Highway Patrol would have to have?


83 posted on 11/24/2012 6:05:27 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: dayglored
Interstellar Highway Patrol Officer: Do you know why I stopped you?

"Here officer, hold my beer, and watch this"...then zoom away in your modified space vehicle at 30 billion times the speed of light...muahahahahaha!

110 posted on 11/25/2012 8:12:04 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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