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keithbvadu2

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6. A bunch of huge numbers in size, time and distance

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #5)

Fri Sep 23, 2016, 08:38 PM

Sep 2016

A bunch of huge numbers in size, time and distance

Wonder if there is a 'Third Rock from the Sun' over there looking back at us now and we are not even around then (approx 4.5 billion years ago for our beginning and 11.5 billion years ago for what they are seeing)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth

They are thinking - what a wasteland!

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