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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.
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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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>I like that. See the light coming. For to see the light coming, then one actually sees the light. That is a paradox.

Maybe in YOUR universe ????