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The curious thing about government: Yes, butget cuts caused them to turn off the light. But, budget cuts also slowed things down (as alwways), including the speed of light. So, even though the light was turned off, we won't actually see that it has been turned off for a few more years!
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You won't see it at all. The position of the Watcher of the Light was terminated last month, and the tunnel will close forever next week. 8-)
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ezdays Wrote:Wait a minute, what's a conductor gunna do with a ladder? Sheesh....
What's the fireman !! :o I Don't know is the Conductor
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Leater Perry Wrote:I thought this was about the light at the end of the tunnel
"The tunnel"--------------------------------------Light
OK ?
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nachoman Wrote:The curious thing about government: Yes, butget cuts caused them to turn off the light. But, budget cuts also slowed things down (as alwways), including the speed of light. So, even though the light was turned off, we won't actually see that it has been turned off for a few more years!
Are you saying that the tunnel is actually more than a few Light Years long???
That's well more than 200 Million Miles!!!! Of course, that depends on "how much" they slowed it down
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It always boggles my mind when I hear something like, "we just discovered a new heavenly body, it's about two billion, 750 millon light years away in the first sector of the Alpha Quadrant". :ugeek: First of all, how do they know how far away it is? It should take over four billion years to send a signal there and back to really be accurate. The other thing is that if the light from that "heavenly body" from the Alpha Quadrant, took two billion, 750 million years to reach earth, how do they know that it's still there? :?: :?: It could have super-novaed (don't look this up) two billion years ago and we'll never know if for a long time.
Another question that haunts me is that, how do they know that there are black holes out there when they are black? Isn't the rest of the visible universe that they're in also black?
As we used to say, "inquiring minds want to know". Once we know this, we can then solve the light at the end of the tunnel thingy...
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Kinda like shooting trap, skeet or enemy planes. Lead the target....
Still, I have a hard time buying into the concept for something that is so far away that it takes thousands or millions of years for its light to hit the earth, by then it could have moved to Beta Quadrant, sector four, or have completely gone south.
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Yeah - that's the fun in Astronomy... What you are looking at - is most likely gone and all you are "seeing" is the light feed that left there before it super-novaed or was swallowed by a black hole.
And they have seen some stars go nova... But then they always say something like this:
Well we just saw the star go Nova, but since it was 3000 light years away - it actually collapsed 3000 years ago....
Yeah, very confusing.. I always picture light from stars (and planets) like a LASER beam shot from a gun - a straight line
That light travels like a bullet in a straight line, so the light that left the star shot out and just arrived on earth, so we could "see" it.... Even though the star (gun) is gone, the light still travels......
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ngauger Wrote:Yeah - that's the fun in Astronomy... What you are looking at - is most likely gone and all you are "seeing" is the light feed that left there before it super-novaed or was swallowed by a black hole.
And they have seen some stars go nova... But then they always say something like this:
Well we just saw the star go Nova, but since it was 3000 light years away - it actually collapsed 3000 years ago....
Yeah, very confusing.. I always picture light from stars (and planets) like a LASER beam shot from a gun - a straight line
That light travels like a bullet in a straight line, so the light that left the star shot out and just arrived on earth, so we could "see" it.... Even though the star (gun) is gone, the light still travels......
Yup, that's my point. I have problems seeing things down at the end of the hallway.
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ngauger Wrote:That light travels like a bullet in a straight line, so the light that left the star shot out and just arrived on earth, so we could "see" it.... Even though the star (gun) is gone, the light still travels......
Is this also what happens to the light when you turn off the light switch?
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