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To: delapaz

Doesn’t it take 8 minutes from the light of the sun to get to earth so if we see it, it should be here in 8 minutes.


14 posted on 07/26/2010 10:15:21 AM PDT by edcoil (There has got to be a better way.)
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To: edcoil

Or it just stationary.


16 posted on 07/26/2010 10:15:52 AM PDT by edcoil (There has got to be a better way.)
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this post destroyed by solar radiation
19 posted on 07/26/2010 10:16:34 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: edcoil
Doesn’t it take 8 minutes from the light of the sun to get to earth so if we see it, it should be here in 8 minutes.

I'm not following your logic there.

25 posted on 07/26/2010 10:17:21 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: edcoil

That’s light. Particles travel a bit slower................


29 posted on 07/26/2010 10:19:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: edcoil

> Doesn’t it take 8 minutes from the light of the sun to get to earth so if we see it, it should be here in 8 minutes.

That’s why we have that spacecraft at the sun, silly.

It sees the sun’s acid reflux attack first, and then beams the picture back to us on radio waves!

...oh wait...


30 posted on 07/26/2010 10:19:56 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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