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To: cripplecreek

The fastest thing we’ve experienced was a solar flare that made it here in 15 minutes. According to Wiki, that’s about a third the speed of light.


28 posted on 07/06/2009 5:51:55 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
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To: wastedyears

Light from the sun takes about 8 and a half minutes. Pretty good time for around 93 million miles.


30 posted on 07/06/2009 6:09:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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