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Myrina

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7. I was (un)fortuntate enough to be stuck in the whirlpool at the gym with some of these ...
Wed Oct 23, 2013, 02:10 PM
Oct 2013

.... they were chatting about how they 'taught' the Big Bang to their Sunday School kids & even though the science was staring them in the face & one of them earnestly said "God created it this way for his own amusement".

WTF? They don't understand & can't accept the scientific facts, so it's got to be some kind of magic trick to pass God's spare time?




"It's on the other side of practically forever." SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2013 #1
+1 nt Poll_Blind Oct 2013 #33
Even with the good mileage on my car i'd have to fill up a couple of times to get there! LOL n/t RKP5637 Oct 2013 #51
Not "it is." Archae Oct 2013 #2
How odd that a supposed loving God creaed the Universe as a massive Con Agnosticsherbet Oct 2013 #6
It does sound silly when you put it that way. nt Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #11
I was (un)fortuntate enough to be stuck in the whirlpool at the gym with some of these ... Myrina Oct 2013 #7
Thanks for posting this! Stupid even pales to even begin to describe the RKP5637 Oct 2013 #52
So what you are saying is that christx30 Oct 2013 #56
Methinks there's a typo. It should be 13 billion ly away, not 30. thereismore Oct 2013 #3
Yes but... brooklynite Oct 2013 #5
30 Billion is correct Treant Oct 2013 #8
(I was wrong) If 30 billion light years is correct, then the record was more than doubled. DisgustipatedinCA Oct 2013 #9
It depends on which distance scale one uses D Gary Grady Oct 2013 #20
I'm assuming that the 30 billion light-years away cpwm17 Oct 2013 #22
Very good post. In a way, we are really lucky to even see anything outside the Milky Way. thereismore Oct 2013 #28
And they're seemlessly mixing and matching. Igel Oct 2013 #29
"But when that light was emitted, it was inside our visible universe." Poll_Blind Oct 2013 #34
13.7bn years old and 93bn lightyears across. Cosmological expansion gets counterintuitive. (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2013 #26
Hmm...why would God put a Galaxy that far away and make it appear so old? brooklynite Oct 2013 #4
He's the ultimate practical joker. onehandle Oct 2013 #18
There are two classes of creationists. Igel Oct 2013 #30
I don't buy it. SpankMe Oct 2013 #10
space expands faster than light, only light and objects are limited to the light speed limit Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #16
So if something could hookup to the expanding galaxy it could go faster than the speed of light? Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #37
mass becomes infinite at the speed of light according to relativity Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #43
In theory at some point in the future could it be possible to create a photon double bubble Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #44
Or, according to one physicist... derby378 Oct 2013 #54
That is a fascinating article, the key seems to be finding or creating the necessary exotic matter. Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #55
No, that's right. The observable universe is actually about 93 billion lightyears in diameter. (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2013 #25
I'm going to have to drag out my trusty telescope and check that Galaxy out. BlueJazz Oct 2013 #12
article says the light took 13.1B years to arrive, but space itself has inflated MisterP Oct 2013 #13
The mythology of Bronze age primitives hold the KEY to all this... Demo_Chris Oct 2013 #14
"Science flies you to the moon, Religion flies you into buildings" KansDem Oct 2013 #17
I wish I could take credit for it, as it's perfect... Demo_Chris Oct 2013 #31
Science flies you to the moon, Religion flies you into buildings. warrant46 Oct 2013 #24
Can we send the GOP there? winter is coming Oct 2013 #15
Remember the Phantom Zone, where Superman sent Lex Luthor? Octafish Oct 2013 #19
I remember Raven Rock and other "undisclosed" locations, I remember that we have a shadow gov. too bobthedrummer Oct 2013 #53
ha ha. riversedge Oct 2013 #21
There is no left or right in space ThoughtCriminal Oct 2013 #32
Creation continues. Hekate Oct 2013 #23
Something puzzles me...... lastlib Oct 2013 #27
space itself is not limited by the light speed limit Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #35
So would that mean that light we're seeing now from that galaxy penultimate Oct 2013 #48
If space expands faster than the speed of light, the light from that galaxy can never reach us. AdHocSolver Oct 2013 #39
I would guess that it used to be much closer. That's the light we can see, not the grahamhgreen Oct 2013 #41
Expansion is kind of an alien concept for most and not crystal clear for anyone, as far as I can see TheKentuckian Oct 2013 #45
"a near religious like need to think they have the full picture" bananas Oct 2013 #46
Maybe one can think of it like a fire hose at 50 yards, the water that's grahamhgreen Oct 2013 #47
Great! DeSwiss Oct 2013 #36
30 billion light years. Aristus Oct 2013 #38
Shit! That's where I parked my car!!! grahamhgreen Oct 2013 #40
I hope you had valet parking...... lastlib Oct 2013 #42
That's theoretically impossible, and you know it... penultimate Oct 2013 #49
At last... christx30 Oct 2013 #50
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