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To: dayglored
I'm very glad for the correction, nevertheless, because being off by 1900 light-years is nothing to sneeze at.

Yep, it's only 11,400,000,000,000,000 miles, give or take.

24 posted on 11/28/2020 5:46:29 AM PST by JPG (MAGA 2020!)
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To: JPG
> Yep, it's only 11,400,000,000,000,000 miles, give or take.

Saw a great astronomy/SETI themed video years ago that showed the Milky Way spiral and the Solar System's approx. position in it, and then started magnifying and closing in on our position. Eventually a tiny blue bubble became visible. That bubble represented the volume of space that had Earth's radio transmissions in it -- with a radius of about 200 light-years.

Very humbling. It put all the talk of communications to/from extraterrestrials into perspective. It also was funny to think that the stuff at the outer edges of the bubble was largely Morse Code, then some voices, and then I Love Lucy.

30 posted on 11/28/2020 8:16:46 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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