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To: kidd

Something like eight hours for a signal to be sent? Takes that long to reach Earth?


23 posted on 07/14/2015 6:10:15 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

The Speed of Light is way too slow...............................


27 posted on 07/14/2015 6:15:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: SkyDancer
"Something like eight hours for a signal to be sent? Takes that long to reach Earth?"

Yep. It's about a third of a light-day distant from here...

28 posted on 07/14/2015 6:16:08 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: SkyDancer

4-1/2 hours to send it a command
4-1/2 hours for the probe to send an acknowledgement.

It is 3 billion miles away

In comparison, it takes sunlight about 8 minutes to reach Earth.

God’s universe is immense. I am in awe


50 posted on 07/14/2015 7:26:13 AM PDT by kidd
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To: SkyDancer
Something like eight hours for a signal to be sent? Takes that long to reach Earth?

Someone on another thread had a link to a website that represented the 'scale' of the distance between the Sun and all the planets.

If you try to represent accurate distances on a piece of paper , the scale of the planets is so small that they are invisible.

68 posted on 07/14/2015 7:27:57 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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