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What will really bake your noodle is that it takes time for light to reach us. We are seeing light that anywhere from a few minutes to a few billion years old.
And when the light from Andromeda reaches us in 2.5 million years, you'll all see my shower thought was right.
And in 2.5 million years when the light from your thought reaches the folks in Andromeda, they’ll be like…
“Woah! Star Wars happened right here!”