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To: BitWielder1

Because people are scientifically illiterate? I would bet that half the people in the country think light year is a measure of time.


17 posted on 10/24/2011 1:55:45 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I would bet that half the people in the country think light year is a measure of time.

The other half think light year is a cartoon character.


21 posted on 10/24/2011 2:04:18 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Straight Vermonter
I would bet that half the people in the country think light year is a measure of time.

Well hold on there just a parsec, fella! A lot a us know what a lite year is!

28 posted on 10/24/2011 4:48:43 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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