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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Where Were They?
Message-ID: <1148@ihuxp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 13:38:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 13:38:54 1985
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> "Millions of light-years" is clearly an exaggeration, but easily
> explained.  Trivial even.  Zarabeth would not understand "light-year",
> but millions of 'em is still an impressive distance, when you consider
> that no unit of distance smaller than a pace is ever used to measure
> travelling.  Even a million paces is a *long* way over arctic land.
> 
> Lum Johnson ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!lum or lum@osu-eddie.uucp

Ah, but you forget that by going back in time the planet will have
traveled the millions of light years, in terms of galactic drift, the
movement of their solar system, and the planets movement.  When
having the displacement in space, you also have the displacement in
absolute spatial coordinates.

 .
. . you would have to travel millions of lightyears to reach where
Spock came from - the planet in the future.



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Walt Pesch
AT&T Network Systems
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