>>>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.
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>>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")
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>>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?
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>It's all in the eyes of the beholder... i.e. the speed at which camera travels :).

Note I said "static observer". I wouldn't mind if the stars were moving for us, the observers, and the ship's doing just 10 mph more than us, but that's rarely the case.