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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"Due to the distance to Jupiter, this happened a LONG time ago, BTW."

Jupiter is only one light hour from the sun (~660+ million miles). I takes a radio signal about an hour to get to Jupiter from earth. We see events on Jupiter about 1 hour after they have happened. That's not so long.

19 posted on 06/03/2010 8:59:34 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: StormEye

Well, a back-of-the-envelope calculation says 660 million miles is about 660 thousand time zones which is about 75 years. That is a fairly long time, although I don’t know which side of the dateline they’re on, so they may actually be ahead of us.


20 posted on 06/03/2010 9:08:47 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("I do not know which of us has written this page.")
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