Re: Aether medium gravity

From: glbrad01 (glbrad01_at_insightbb.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:52:29 GMT

"AaronB" <amino_acid456@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1106712987.492093.256210@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> glbrad01 wrote:
>> "Franz Heymann" <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:ct28vh$ohv$4@sparta.btinternet.com...
>> >
>> > glbrad01 wrote:
>> >> NASA scientists some time ago observed 70,000 light years distant
>> >> from Earth the aura of a nova they said occurred 1,000 years ago
> our
>> >> time. I not kidding, it was all in the caption underneath the
>> > picture
>> >> just as I put above.
>> >
>> > I fail to see anything odd in that statement.
>> >
>> > Franz
>> >
>>
>> You wouldn't see anything odd about a caption saying a nova
> occurred 1,000
>> years ago at 70,000 light years distance-time.
>>
>> Brad
>
> You're misreading it. There was a supernova that was first seen here
> 1000 years ago (the one that created the crab nebula, I belive), Earth
> time. We can, I would assume, still see the remnants of the supernova
> now, but the light that arrived here 1000 years ago had already
> travelled for 70000 years.
>
> A.
>

  No, I didn't misread it. I wrote an e-mail to Space.com to forward to
NASA, if they wanted, to correct the caption and they did, to "1,000 before"
(if memory serves) rather than "1,000 ago."

Brad