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Subject: We know. :-)

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 09:26:53 09/09/00

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On September 09, 2000 at 12:06:37, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>A "lightyear" is a measure of distance and not time.  (Distance light travels in
>one year)


Yes. It didn't took me a lightyear to learn that... :-)

But it's used as a fun verbal effect to measure a long time too among some
people. (Who sure know that it actually means distance.) Same way like the
word zillion means a very big number...


					Jari



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