To: ETL
Yes, that is understood. The point is 100 light years is relatively close in distance and a few thousand years is relatively close in time. Most of the time we hear measures about space discoveries in terms of millions or <sagan> billions </sagan> of years, whether light or standard.
36 posted on
08/11/2009 8:36:08 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Why Does Obama Want Health Care in 4 Weeks When it Took Him 6 Months to Pick a Dog?)
To: NonValueAdded
The wording was a little tricky and I thought you might have thought that, since we were just now receiving the images of the thousands-of-years-old collision (via light speed) that the event must have taken place a few thousand years ago.
37 posted on
08/11/2009 8:57:19 AM PDT by
ETL
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To: NonValueAdded
RE: The wording was a little tricky and I thought you might have thought that, since we were just now receiving the images of the thousands-of-years-old collision (via light speed) that the event must have taken place a few thousand years ago.
Correction: that the event was a few thousand light-years away. Sorry.
38 posted on
08/11/2009 8:58:57 AM PDT by
ETL
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