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To: GregoryFul

Edge of the universe is, VERY OBVIOUSLY, a figure of speech. I know there are a lot of you humorless literal types out there. Which makes me wish I were not human. It’s like- ‘the edge of sanity’. Nobody who actually says something like that means literally a rim/hem/lip of sanity any more than people literally think the Earth has an edge when they say ‘ends of the Earth’.

Even at the speed of light, you’d still need how many billions of years? It doesn’t matter. All of civilization would have changed so fundamentally in 20 billion years, your quest wouldn’t even matter by the time you go there.

That’s what I mean by there being no way we can reach the edge of the universe.

God I hate people. All of ‘em. If we were all floating in a toilet bowl (which in a way it seems like we are), I can only hope something will come along and flush us...


33 posted on 09/04/2009 5:35:28 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son

Wow! Talk about absence of humor. I just think that it is interesting that there is no edge of the universe, and think that it is useful to employ accurate language to discuss such topics. No harm meant.


34 posted on 09/04/2009 5:59:49 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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