January 24th 07, 11:53 AM
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Question for the boffs
"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
oups.com...
Alan LeHun wrote:
In article . com,
says...
This is estimated to be 2.3million light years away
(13,491,100,800,000,000,000 miles)
Damn. I have been cheated all these years. I could have sworn it is:
13,491,100,800,000,000,001 miles.*
*Either way, it is easier to see such distances under a clear blue sky
when one is standing deep in an hole in the ground.
If the hole is a mile deep, it would account for the differences between my
estimation and that of Jack's
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