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Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed
mcgrew writes to mention New Scientist is reporting that scientists have clocked matter traveling at 99.999% the speed of light. "The fastest flows of matter in the universe shoot out of dying stars at more than 99.999% the speed of light, new observations reveal. When a massive star runs out of fuel, it collapses to form a black hole or a neutron star. In the process, some of the matter from the star also explodes outward at blistering speeds, producing an intense burst of gamma rays and other radiation."
Slackers.
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will be snails pace when we get warp technology.
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What truth?
There is no dupe
The only way you'd get a superluminal effect is if you had a perfectly rigid pole (and, seeing as how this is Slashdot, I'm going to discount that possibility.)
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Do not try to push the pole. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no pole. Then you'll see, it is not the pole that is pushed, it is only yourself.
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now all we need is to capture a sun in supernova mode to power out space ships, hope it has a good fuel tank...
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Actually, the speed was calculated to be 99.9997% but there was a rounding problem when the report was generated via their new-fangled AI system and the system kept crashing from the unexpected logical impossibility...
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Do not try to push the pole. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no pole. Then you'll see, it is not the pole that is pushed, it is only yourself.
Woah!
"But officer, the light looked green!"
I'm sure there are plenty of ridged poles around. Just very few of them are used.
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It's the speed at which an object in a vacuum must travel to spontaneously get blisters to appear on its surface. What did you think it meant?
That's between laughable speed and ludicrous speed.
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And which fundamental law of the universe is the one that dictates good use of a rigid pole requires more than one entity?
I think he's just yankin' your chain.
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Why is this news? I read this article ten minutes from now.
You mean between ridiculous speed and ludicrous speed, right? Wasn't that the order on Spaceballs? Light Speed, Ridiculous Speed, Ludicrous Speed?
Now that John Holmes is dead, anyway.
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Laughable speed is the speed limit on UK motorways - 70mph.
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which is totally what she said
Not really. Take a brick of Jell-O. Push one end. You'll move it, but it will distort in shape, compress, wobble, send waves, etc.
Boobs also act similarly. Or so I've heard.
Eureka, that's it! Boobie physics! What else could better attract young males to science and fluid dynamics?