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>>>>Along the lines of this thread.
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>>>>In one Aurthur C. Clarks books, he once wrote something along the lines of...
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>>>>First man: "Did you see that laser?" As he look out the porthole of the spaceship.
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>>>>Second man sitting: "That is rubbish. You can't see lasers in space. That only occurs in bad SF books."
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>>>I think Dragan mentioned that in a previous discussion ?
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>>I seem to recall Dragan was talking about sound - the great explosions we hear in all the SF movies.
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>And the great invention of Hollywood/StarTrek/whoever: slow light. I know Discworld light is taking its time, but actually seeing light travel slower than a bullet is really something. On a video at probably 30 fps, it usually takes three images for a beam of light to travel from the phaser's muzzle to the target's guts. Which is still below 1 km/s, and faaaaar below c.

Ha ha! I checked THAT one out myself! And thought "light - that you can dodge (and more easily than a bullet in that you can see it coming")

Talking of slow light, how come space cruisers rumble past the static observer, at about 10 mph, but are supposed to be travelling at space flight speeds?