Through The Looking Glass
on 12/14/2006 at 05:22 PM
These shots remind me of the opening of the old Outer Limits tv show.
Okay, a question about light physics. M31 is about 2 MM light years off. Is that measured from the galactic center? Then, M31 is about 200,000 light years across. So, that means that the light on the near side of the galaxy is 200,000 years “younger” than the light coming from the far side of the galaxy. It may not be terribly significant at these distances, but is there any distortion caused by this relative difference from our point of view?
If you look really really carefully, you can see the planet from which Hillary Clinton originated....
The nearest star to us, (in our own galaxy) is “only” about 4.5 LY away, (at 186,000 miles per second, X 3600 X 24 X 365.25 X 4.5) you run the math....
Until the Vulcans and Zephram Cochrane bring us warp drive, you can’t get there from here.
