The Phenomenon of Red Shift
Even today, the stars and galaxies continue to fly apart. This produces a phenomenon called red shift. The further away a celestial object is, the more it appears to astronomers on Earth to be shifted toward the red end of the spectrum.
Red shift shows increasing totalitarian domination of the outer reaches of the universe. Write your congressman!
Courtesy of "Science Made Stupid"
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