If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
Person: 
Terry Pratchett
The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old. The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago – it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun.