hoplitejoe
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The original, you may find it offensive, i don't know.
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Even if you saw a star that was a few million light-years away, it's going to probably be still around since the lifetimes of most stars are counted in the billions of years.
Phew. Here I was thinking it'd be some Jim Crow heritage related to restaurants not serving food to blacks.
Well, if you could see an individual star from that far away, it would probably be a very big, very bright star, and those tend to have shorter lifetimes.
If you could see a indiviudal star that far away, you are a liar.
Not you are probably a liar, but are.
Because it is physically impossible to pick out a star millions of light years away. The Andromeda Galaxy on good nights appears as a faint nebula. A star in it? Never going to picked out. Because that galaxy is about 2-3 million LYs away.
This is the exact opposite of funny. If you think your being cute, you arent.
Phew. Here I was thinking it'd be some Jim Crow heritage related to restaurants not serving food to blacks.
If you could see a indiviudal star that far away, you are a liar.
Not you are probably a liar, but are.
Because it is physically impossible to pick out a star millions of light years away. The Andromeda Galaxy on good nights appears as a faint nebula. A star in it? Never going to picked out. Because that galaxy is about 2-3 million LYs away.
This is the exact opposite of funny. If you think your being cute, you arent.