This can only happen once every light year or so

[BeatTheChalk]

6th Race - Belmont Park - Sunday, October 14th, 2007

# Horse A/S M/E Wgt PP St 1/4 1/2 3/4 Str Fin Jockey Odds
6 Pick Six 3 C L b 118 6 4 51/2 21/2 21 11/2 13/4 Velasquez Cornelio H. 6.30
* Oh .. the horse Won the Race :bang: :eek:

[m001001]

Light year is to measure distance, not time.

[Zman179]

Hmmm,
Race 6,
Horse #6,
Name of the horse: Pick Six,
Odds: 6/1.

Yup, doesn't happen too often. Surprised he didn't finish 6th.

[BeatTheChalk]

Light year is to measure distance, not time.

Is that theee best you can offer ?? I bet you thought it was cute and clever and worthy of an answer. It isn't of course but Maybe this will help you in your next discussion. Study hard we aks questions later ....

What is a light-year and how is it used?
Answer:
A light-year is a unit of distance. It is the distance that light can travel in one year. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 kilometers (km) each second. So in one year, it can travel about 10 trillion km. More p recisely, one light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers.

Why would you want such a big unit of distance? Well, on Earth, a kilometer may be just fine. It is a few hundred kilometers from New York City to Washington, DC; it is a few thousand kilometers from California to Maine. In the Universe, the kilometer is just too small to be useful. For example, the distance to the next nearest big galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, is 21 quintillion km. That's 21,000,000,000,000,000,000 km. This is a number so large that it becomes hard to write and hard to interpret. So astronomers use other units of distance.

In our solar system, we tend to describe distances in terms of the Astronomical Unit (AU). The AU is defined as the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is approximately 150 million km (93 million miles). Mercury can be said to be about 1/3 of an AU from the Sun and Pluto averages about 40 AU from the Sun. The AU, however, is not big enough of a unit when we start talking about distances to objects outside our solar system.

For distances to other parts of the Milky Way Galaxy (or even further), astronomers use units of the light-year or the parsec . The light-year we have already defined. The parsec is equal to 3.3 light-years. Using the light-year, we can say that :

The Crab supernova remnant is about 4,000 light-years away.

The Milky Way Galaxy is about 150,000 light-years across.

The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.3 million light-years away.

[kenwoodallpromos]

very unusual!
I think once I won a race 1 with #1 at 1/1 odds, jockey named Juan!

[Greyfox]

On May 5, 2005, in the 5 th race at a track I bet $ 500 to win on # 5 Cinq, 5 minutes before post time.
He ran 5 th.

[DJofSD]

Well, partial credit. You tell us the equivalent distances for a parsec but you don't tell us how it is derived.

[Jerfi]

Unit of measure used by astronomers to express distances to stars and galaxies. It is the distance at which the radius of Earth's orbit would subtend an angle of one second of arc, so an object one parsec away would have a parallax (http://www.answers.com/topic/parallax) of one second. An object's distance in parsecs is the reciprocal of its parallax in seconds of arc. For example, Alpha Centauri (http://www.answers.com/topic/alpha-centauri), with a parallax of 0.76 second, is 1.33 parsecs from the Sun and Earth. One parsec equals 3.26 light-years, or 19.2 trillion mi (30.9 trillion km).

[DJofSD]

Excellent.

Now, why are black holes considered hairy?

[Zman179]

For example, the distance to the next nearest big galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, is 21 quintillion km. That's 21,000,000,000,000,000,000 km. This is a number so large that it becomes hard to write and hard to interpret. So astronomers use other units of distance.

You ain't kidding. If I'm not mistaken, it's actually written out:

21,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000.

In other words, it's a bit¢h of a commute. :lol:

Excellent.

Now, why are black holes considered hairy?

Because once you enter one, you lose your ability to reason forever and ever and ever.

[Overlay]

On May 5, 2005, in the 5 th race at a track I bet $ 500 to win on # 5 Cinq, 5 minutes before post time.
He ran 5 th.

Franklin Roosevelt (at least according to Robert Vaughn's portrayal of him) told a similar story about a guy who placed a hunch bet on the 5 horse after receiving all kinds of omens that the number would come in, and after the horse ran fifth, the man's reaction was, "That damned Roosevelt!" (I guess some people blamed him for everything.)

[toetoe]

Yeah, it should be called a year beam, or something similar.

Parsec was a nice little sprinter back in the day. Yup, he could run some. Come ta find his name is Cesrap backwards. Hmm.

Now, when a red dwarf rubs up against a hairy black hole, who wins ? And is there some virtual game depicting this phenomenon ?

[098poi]

I've always found this interesting. The difference between a million and a billion is a lot!
A million seconds is about eleven and a half days.

Multiply by a thousand and a billion seconds is

OVER THIRTY ONE YEARS!!! :eek:

[Greyfox]

I've always found this interesting. The difference between a million and a billion is a lot!
A million seconds is about eleven and a half days.

Multiply by a thousand and a billion seconds is

OVER THIRTY ONE YEARS!!! :eek:

Right. So try a trillion. The national debt is approaching 9 Trillion beans!
So if a child started counting at $10 per second, it likely wouldn't finish counting by the time his life expired.
http://www.babylontoday.com/national_debt_clock.htm

[Kelso]

"Lucky" 7 horse:

Finish - Track - Odds

1st ELP 6.20 (6 starters)
2nd CRC 16.70
3rd LAD 4.70

OTM BEL-CNL-HOL-LS-MTH
Last CD-DEL-EVD
Scr PHA-YAV