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To: anymouse
The outcast is going so fast -- over 1.5 million mph -- that astronomers believe it was lobbed out of the galaxy by the tremendous force of a black hole thought to sit at the Milky Way's center.

Holy cats!! Isn't that well past the speed of light (186,000 mph)? So what happened to all the nay-sayers who have said that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light? Pass the crow, gentlemen ....

4 posted on 02/08/2005 10:44:29 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (http://sonoma-moderate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert
186,000 mph

Make that per second.

5 posted on 02/08/2005 10:47:25 PM PST by BikerTrash (Enough already with the carnival freak show...bring back COOL!)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.


6 posted on 02/08/2005 10:47:28 PM PST by Paul_Denton (The UN is UN-American! Get the UN out of the US and US out of the UN!)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

That would be 186,000 miles per second, not hour, for the speed of light.


7 posted on 02/08/2005 10:48:01 PM PST by spodefly (Yo, homey ... Is that my briefcase?)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Speed of light is 670,600,000 mph


9 posted on 02/08/2005 10:49:50 PM PST by Crazieman (Islam. Religion of peace, and they'll kill you to prove it.)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

As said before, it's 186,000 miles per second - that translates to 669,600,000mph. That star is only moving at 0.224% of the speed of light.


14 posted on 02/08/2005 10:52:34 PM PST by ElectionTracker
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