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To: BenLurkin
...roughly 5 times closer to Earth than the moon...

That is a rather ignorant way of stating something is 1/5 the distance to the moon. We don't use a whole multiplier when describing a divisor.

12 posted on 09/20/2019 6:25:04 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Thanks. That drives me crazy.


18 posted on 09/20/2019 9:33:29 AM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
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