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Offline Clive

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Hubble finds most distant galaxy ever
« on: October 21, 2010, 19:37 »
Its light has been travelling for nearly 6000 years. 

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Offline daveeb

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Re: Hubble finds most distant galaxy ever
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2010, 21:07 »
Wow !!!. Although as i'm feeling in smart ar$e mode I suspect its light has been travelling even longer than 6000 years, maybe around 13.1 billion  :)x
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Re: Hubble finds most distant galaxy ever
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2010, 22:15 »
How can that possibly be Dave?   Everyone knows that the Universe was created at nightfall preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC.   :dunno:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
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Re: Hubble finds most distant galaxy ever
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2010, 22:21 »
Anyone who's visited the Tate Modern knows that there's no such thing as 'intelligent design'.
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Re: Hubble finds most distant galaxy ever
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2010, 04:08 »
not sure I believe those observations, well I believe its at that distance but really formed galaxy -ha!
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