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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: ETL
It works out to about 5.9 TRILLION miles.

At a dollar per mile, that's only one-third the national debt...

6 posted on 01/10/2014 5:48:01 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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