[ExI] Milky Way escape velocity

[Kelly Anderson]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:02 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is easy for light to escape from the galaxy. That's why we can see the stars.

Uh, wouldn't that also have something to do with the fact that photons
have no mass and are therefore unaffected by gravity (other than minor
lensing from bent space time..) or am I missing something basic here?

-Kelly