[John S Mosby]

Something being viewed now which is 11.5 BILLION Light Years away—— happened a very very long time ago.
That is to say it happened 11.5 BILLION years ago from thie present viewing. So, uh we’re still here so it must not have been anything which would have STOPPED the development of life on Earth. So why so much excitement-— it’s a really old re-run.

[Verginius Rufus]

The light has been traveling in this direction for 11.5 billion years. The earth is supposed to be something like 4.5 billion years old. So the light was headed this way for 7 billion years before the earth existed.

Traveling all that time and it never got tired.