Re:A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar e...
by warent on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:10PM
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Light that traveled across trillions of trillions of kilometers, passing endless galaxies, nebulae, planets, (possibly extraterrestrial lifeforms) and other breathtaking interstellar objects, all so that it can end its journey on the bum of a random tourist at on a beach. What a world!
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Re:A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar e...
by JCharante on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @09:56PM
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Fortunately for the light, its trip was pretty instantaneous.
Re:A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar e...
by balabaster on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:07AM
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It's a hard concept to wrap your head around. Eons of time have passed for us, planets have formed, entire species have evolved, flourished and become extinct, ice ages have happened, wars, humanity has grown up and has reached a point where we're on the cusp of escaping the boundaries of this rock we call home... but for the light, it blinked into existence and out again, in a moment, time and distance completely irrelevant to its existence... it's as if instead of traveling across our space and time, it is merely passing through from some other dimension.