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Old 08-09-2008, 10:28 PM
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Default If you flew into space and traveled in a straight line forever, where would you end up?

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Old 08-09-2008, 10:32 PM
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Supposedly, space is infinite, and it keeps expanding (leaving the idea that some infinities are greater than others). Confusing, huh? So, you would just keep traveling forever, there isn't an end. However, you may accidently run into a star or planet or something if you don't move out of the way.
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Old 08-09-2008, 10:40 PM
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Strangely enough, under general relativity you end up back where you started! (This is true, but you have to go a long way before it happens.)
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Old 08-09-2008, 10:45 PM
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Bored & insane, and back where i started from.
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Old 08-09-2008, 10:50 PM
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Dead.
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Old 08-09-2008, 10:54 PM
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I've heard and read that space has no center and no edge. Therefore, you would just keep going and going and going..........etc.Unless of course you ran into something.
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Old 08-09-2008, 10:56 PM
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If the universe is expanding, and you are going slower than the expansion rate, you would keep going forever. Otherwise, you would reach the outer edge of the universe, and start following the edge (and go all the way around inside the edge of the universe.
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Old 08-09-2008, 11:57 PM
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In God's septic tank.
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