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1 posted on 01/10/2014 5:31:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
"A mere seven hundred light years from Earth"

For anyone who doesn't know, a light year is the DISTANCE light travels in a year at light speed (186,000 miles per second). It works out to about 5.9 TRILLION miles.

5 posted on 01/10/2014 5:45:33 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Realizing how small we really are.


7 posted on 01/10/2014 5:48:19 PM PST by SkyDancer ("How Can People Ask Forgiveness If They Won't Forgive Others?")
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To: SunkenCiv
When I was a kid I saw a picture of the Helix Nebula and wondered if it we were mere objects on a giant glass slide looking up at the business end of some alien's microscope...

"I see you!"


8 posted on 01/10/2014 5:59:32 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: SunkenCiv

WOW, that is EXACTLY what all lights seen at night look like through the cataracts in my right eye.

Maybe I don’t have cataracts, just super telescopic astronomers vision.....?

Then again, maybe not.


9 posted on 01/10/2014 6:15:42 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: SunkenCiv

I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don’t need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind


10 posted on 01/10/2014 7:32:50 PM PST by Hammerhead
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