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Re:An eruption from the Sun that happened today by mseebach on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @07:02AM (#2632660)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=depth+of+challenger+dee...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+for+light+to+trave...

40 µs, not ms.

(off topic.. can anyone get wolfram alpha to answer that in one query?)

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Re:An eruption from the Sun that happened today by andyn on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @07:34AM (#2632709)
"Depth of Challenger Deep in light seconds"
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Re:An eruption from the Sun that happened today by burke on Thursday June 09, 2011 @11:44AM (#2637523)
I was going for the distance from some arbitrary spot in North America to some arbitrary spot way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where I'd assume the ocean is at its deepest, but this is interesting too.
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