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A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
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 (February 3, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Chas Wrote: I am struck by how slow light is. It is a matter of perspective. I am struck by how far apart things are. The distances in space are almost unimaginable. It is one of the reasons there is little chance that beings from one solar system will ever visit beings from another one, unless the two solar systems collide. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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