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Old 02-07-2006, 11:42 PM  
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
What hurts my brain most is that we might even be dead without knowing it.
If a star 50 light years away, turned into a deadly supernova 40 years ago, it will hit us in 10 years from now. It already happened, but because of speed of light, we just dont know it yet.
Well if something was coming towards Earth, I think the actual object would be moving slower than the light of the object...so we would see it coming before it hit us...
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