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To: Conan the Librarian

Thanks, but all I have now is a pair of tripod-mounted giant binocs.

However, galaxies are of course amazing things. To think that, even at light speed (186,000 miles per second), it would still take over 100 years to go from one end of our Milky Way galaxy to the other, one of 100 or so billion other galaxies.


10 posted on 02/10/2016 9:05:57 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

Make that 100,000 to get from one side to the other.

2,000,000 to get to Andromeda.

But, look on the bright side. It’s only 75,000 or so to the Magellanic Clouds.


11 posted on 02/10/2016 2:23:29 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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