>>>>>>>>...
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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.
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>>>Maybe in YOUR universe ????
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>>It's MY universe. Cool.
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>>A old friend of mine use to say often. "If you don't like my opinion, then get the H#ll out my universe."
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>So THAT's when you came over to ours!? Oh, I see now! :-)
OURS, I thought it was mine. I see it, it must be mine. :-)
Time is the only thing that is relative. For as we all know, it takes about a thousand of second for the signal to travel from our eyes to our brain and then to be processed. Therefore we are all living in the past.
Greg Reichert