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Farin

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Trivial, scientific interlude;

Lizard,

I see you're from the Milky Way Galaxy!

So I have to ask you a question;

If you were in a spacecraft that traveled the speed of light (186,314.159265 miles per second) and started at the beginning of the Milky Way, how many years would it take you to reach its end?

Keep in mimd, the Milky Way is fairly a small galaxy that really can't compare to the universe's infinite galaxies that are beyond conception's realization of what vast space truly is.

Also, only a few astrophysicists can answer the question.

I'm hoping you're one of them.

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Oops, it's around 100,000 lightyears in diameter. I read 10,000 the first time I looked it up.

Fair and close enough for government work.

Isn't that amazing while considering other infinite amounts of galaxies, too?

What amazes me is the only star in the sky that's not a blackhole sun is our sun. The big dipper, orion and infinite star clusters really aren't there anymore, though we still see their light. When you look at a star, you're looking at millions upon millons of years in the past.

It's downright fascinating to me.

Einstein basically said there is no such thing as time.

I'm not one to disagree with him.

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