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Old 13-07-2009, 02:40 PM
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Err... so what is the answer? Forgetting gravity and Einstein (may I?) and that the solar system is moving through space (orbiting the galactic centre), it makes sense to my simple brain that the Sun ("absolutely") is located "8 minutes of earth rotation" ahead of where its image appears.

Of course, it doesn't really matter given we are all down here, some eight minutes away from the Sun.
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