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To: Quix
“The mountains of facts in the field are more startling than even some students of the topic think.”

Mountains of Facts? Are you algore? Provide ONE mountain of fact. Just one. Is there a body or a real UFO? Does anyone have a souvenir of the visit? Do you?

Here are the basic facts. The distance to the nearest star.. (not that it has a planet around it that is habitable is 4.3 light years).

Now a light-year equals 5.88 MILLION-MILLION miles (9.46 kilometers). This is the distance light travels in one year at a speed of 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second). Alpha Centauri is 4.3 light-years from the Sun. It is a dim red star in the constellation of Centaurus that lies at a distance of over 40 MILLION MILLION Kilometers, some 270,000 times greater than the distance between the earth and the sun.

A light year equals 186,000 miles/second * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/year. So a light year is 5,865,696,000,000 (trilion) miles.

And it is 4.3 light years to Alpha Centauri! That's a long way and definitely not something you can do in a life time. That is if there is a planet around star around Alpha Centauri (probably not as it is a double star).

Let& say that a star is 1 million light years away (AC is 4.3). The light from that star has traveled at the speed of light to reach us. Therefore, it has taken the star light 1 million years to get here, and the light we are seeing was created 1 million years ago. (X 4.3 to Alpha Centauri so 4.3 million years)

Now how many generations is that? Again, case closed.

28 posted on 02/04/2009 11:15:56 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: JSteff

I no longer have that much of a need to try and convince perspectives which seem to be

—willfully blind;
—thoroughly ignorant;
—terminally uninformed;
—rigidly narrowly biased into microscopic tiny little boxes to the max;
—terminally fearful of their world view being upset by something reality altering new;
. . .
. . .

I’ve HAD the relative working around UFO’s

I’ve HAD the umpteen hours of discussions with many world famous UFO researchers including Japan’s foremost expert.

I’ve READ the 10’s of thousands of pages of QUALITY TRAINED PROFESSIONAL OBSERVERS and experiencers . . .

Sooooooooo, silly clueless ignorance is sometimes just not that attractive to bother that much about.

Enjoy your world view while you can. The half-life on it is decreasing at an increasing rate of speed.


30 posted on 02/04/2009 12:51:08 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: JSteff

What cluelessness.

Responsible well trained people I trust have asserted that there are 3-4

DIFFERENT

ways of going from point A to point B in our time/space dimension that make the ‘faster than speed-of-light’ silly-ness wholesale laughable as a barrier.

However, if folks enjoy believing the MSM and archiac text books . . . maybe it keeps them off the streets.


31 posted on 02/04/2009 12:53:00 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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