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To: FourtySeven
~40,000 billion billion miles away.

WOW ...my little brain can't comprehend that distance.

45 posted on 03/24/2008 11:09:10 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

Yeah, it’s pretty much incomprehensible for any sized brain. Scientific notation cures this somewhat, at least it standardizes all measurements for the purposes of mathematics, but there’s no way any human could “relate” to such a distance.


46 posted on 03/24/2008 11:11:49 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: TexasCajun

my brain is asking

“how do they know that this is ‘halfway’ across the universe”


50 posted on 03/24/2008 11:42:03 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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