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Old 17-03-2009, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Quark View Post
Last time I looked the Virgo cluster, for that matter any Galaxy cluster even the LMC and SMC are substantially further than M42 which is about 1500 LY distant.
Sorry, I may have been a bit out with my own details there, just giving an idea of what it was like. I'm sure the sequence of distances of M42 and galaxies etc was accurate.

I'm not usually this pedantic. It was just that for such a supposedly factual, scientific type movie to end with jumping into a black hole to warp home was such a corny ending to a decent movie.
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