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|    Joann Evans to Rodney Kelp    |
|    Re: Probe to A Centauri    |
|    05 May 04 01:45:01    |
      From: bondage@frontiernet.net              Rodney Kelp wrote:       >       > Let's keep it in this galaxy for the time being since it is 100,000 light       > years across it.       > The next galaxy if out of the question. I think I read that Voyager 1 will       > reach the next galaxy in 30 thousand years or so. The dinosaurs could be       > back before then.               Um, assuming it was even headed for Alpha Centauri, Voyager wouldn't       reach the next *star* by then, much less galaxy....               (Unless you were headed for Andromeda [M31] at about 7.5 times the       speed of light, anyway.)                     --               You know what to remove, to reply....              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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