The Fastest Speed at Which We Might Communicate with Another

question 17

Multiple Choice

The fastest speed at which we might communicate with another technological civilization among the stars (according to our present understanding of science) is

• A) the speed of sound (the natural speed for messages)
• B) the speed of light
• C) the speed of the Voyager spacecraft (which is typical of our space probes)
• D) instantly (as fast as we want) -- if we only knew where they were located
• E) the orbital speed of the Earth

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Definitions:

Liabilities

Financial obligations or debts owed by a company to creditors or suppliers, which must be settled over time.

Posting

the process of transferring journal entries to respective accounts in the ledger.

Ledger

A book or electronic record used to record all of a company's financial transactions in chronological order.

T-account

A graphical representation used in accounting to illustrate the effects of transactions on account balances, with debits on the left and credits on the right.