[Chaos-l] Pettigrew last night

[Terry Crook]

Or to put it another way:
We are at the apparent center of our detectable Universe.
We can "see" out to ~13.7B lightyears in any direction.
OTOH, we have not been able to record everything out there and there is 
mostly 'empty' space in the Universe.

Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill, cosmology buff
35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W

On 8/26/2012 5:21 PM, C Tony Garcia wrote:
>
> no up in the universe !  nicely said.
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2012, at 5:02 PM, "Allen Davis"<starstorm151 at embarqmail.com 
> <mailto:starstorm151 at embarqmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Week taken point and also very well said.
>>
>> I made a similar point when I told him in. the universe there is no 
>> up.  Allen
>>
>> /Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless/
>>
>>
>> -----Original message-----
>>
>>     *From: *C Tony Garcia <randomcoffee at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:randomcoffee at gmail.com>>*
>>     To: *Allen Davis <starstorm151 at embarqmail.com
>>     <mailto:starstorm151 at embarqmail.com>>*
>>     Cc: *"North Carolina Observers That Chase Photons In Medoc
>>     Mountain StatePark" <medoc-mountain-men at rapideye.us
>>     <mailto:medoc-mountain-men at rapideye.us>>, Chapel Hill
>>     AstronomicalObservation Society <chaos-l at rtpnet.org
>>     <mailto:chaos-l at rtpnet.org>>*
>>     Sent: *Sun, Aug 26, 2012 20:42:20 GMT+00:00*
>>     Subject: *Re: [Chaos-l] Pettigrew last night
>>
>>
>>     awesome on the great night!
>>
>>     I have to react to one comment.
>>
>>     > On Aug 26, 2012, at 3:41
>>     One guy last night made such comments that he thought if "God
>>     wanted us up there he would have put us up there>"
>>
>>     Last time I checked we are up there! We do seem to be on a planet
>>     in a solar system in space in a galaxy in a cluster of galaxies
>>     somewhere in a vastness. We are a unique candle in the midst of
>>     ancient burning fires, and not on a flat plain with the universe
>>     spinning overhead.
>>
>>     I try not to be stubborn but I've exhausted a lot of patience for
>>     some things.
>>
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