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To: dsc
I'd like to respond to your three posts separately, in turn.

I, too, needed a way to try to picture a billion. I finally found it when I realized that my heart beats one billion times about every thirty years. Currently, I'm at about 2.2 billion.

Light travels at 186,300 miles per second, more or less. So a light-minute is 60 times 186,300, a light-hour x 3,600, a light-day x 86,400, and a light-year x 31,536,000. So, a light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles, and 10 billion light-years is 5.9 sextillion miles. I'm just going to pace that off--I'll be right back.

24 posted on 06/05/2014 11:53:48 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

“I’m just going to pace that off”

Are you back yet?


31 posted on 06/05/2014 12:39:35 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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