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To: Drammach

WOW!!!! Thank you! Thats what I was looking for. It is mind boggling. 2,200,000 light years to the nearest large galaxy. Light can travel around the earth 7 times in one second? Dam!! Light is FAST!! And it says they are millions of billions of galaxies. I cannot imagine millions of billions. 15 billion light years to the edge of the known universe.

To put that into somewhat of a context it is
one million seconds = 11 years
one billion seconds = 31 years.
One trillion seconds = 318 centuries

I will have to check out the links on that site. I only saw the main page.
Thanks again


50 posted on 01/13/2005 8:20:17 AM PST by winodog (I am gonna stop calling them liberals. They are humanists. Liberal is actually a good word)
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To: winodog
one million seconds = 11 years days

1,000,000 seconds/ 3600 sec/hour = 278.8 hours

278.8 hours/24 hours/day = 11.6 days

53 posted on 01/13/2005 8:45:30 AM PST by hopespringseternal
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