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."

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Re:99.999%

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, that's slow compared to scuttlemonkey. I just submitted it this morning, now THAT'S fast! Maybe we can power starships with a compliment of scuttlemonkeys? Or would they produce too many gamma rays?

-mcgrew

Cause we've been there?

[slapout]

We know this because we've sent starships out to observe it up close...no wait, we haven't.

I really wish we were doing more in the area of manned space exploration.