To: SunkenCiv
1500 light years away! The light we are seeing today occurred about when Nineveh (Babylonian capital) was captured, thus marking the end of the Assyrian Empire. The number of miles are so big, they are even more difficult to grasp than Obama’s debt.
3 posted on
02/24/2012 4:27:38 AM PST by
econjack
To: econjack
1500 light years away! The light we are seeing today occurred about when Nineveh (Babylonian capital) was captured, thus marking the end of the Assyrian Empire.Wasn't that was more like about 600 BC, i.e. 2600 years ago?
To: econjack; GATOR NAVY
Well, 412 AD, so, late in the classic Roman Empire.
11 posted on
02/24/2012 5:13:48 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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