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To: samtheman

“one tenth the speed of light” = 18,600 miles per second.


9 posted on 05/09/2015 7:31:14 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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ONE light year, the distance light travels in a year at its speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 TRILLION miles. And these 3 things are 30 MILLION light-years away. Yet they are practically our ‘next door neighbors’, given that there are galaxies over 13 BILLION light years away. Crazy stuff. Especially if you believe that all of this was once contained within a space many billions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom, which is what the inflationary big bang model says.


10 posted on 05/09/2015 7:38:29 AM PDT 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

Yeah, I know. It will be a long, long, long time before we can get to one tenth the speed of light. And even if we have the propulsion to do so, will we ever be able to solve the problem of random collisions with interstellar dust particles, which at one tenth light speed will be catastrophic.


14 posted on 05/09/2015 8:23:39 AM PDT by samtheman ( BushClinton. The Yesterday Candidate.)
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