(September 13, 2016 at 2:49 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(September 13, 2016 at 11:04 am)Alex K Wrote: There must be some kind of misunderstanding. Alpha Centauri is many thousand times further away than the Sun
I think it highly possible that you may be right. Big difference between 6 million and 6 trillion.
My only excuse is that in school my math teacher was arrested as a cell leader in the notorious al Gebra movement. Our classroom was littered with weapons of math instruction and I got taken out by a stealth bomber disguised as a pop quiz. It was terrible.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'