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Old 10-17-2007, 09:39 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Sowa View Post
My question is why is it necessary that people know what a light year is? It's not knowledge that 99.9% of people need or will find useful at anytime during their life.
It is just indicative of a general ignorance of science, which unfortunately is disturbingly pervasive in our society.

Like I said before, I'm not asking people to be able to define it as (3E8*60*60*24*365.24)m, only that they be familiar with the unit, that they know it to be a distance, and a very long one at that.
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