🚀 go-pugleaf

C. Capps wrote:
> 
> Mark B. Haynes wrote:
> >
> > Jason C. Wenger wrote:
> > >
> > > >> I started this thread loooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg time ago and im surprised
> > > >> it is back to the alt.games.descent.thread
> > > >> Actually it was a thread about packets and the speed of packets.
> > > >> I dont know how it got renamed and stuck on light speed.
> > > >
> > > > So you're the culprit...  I've got a question for ya:
> > > > If you are in a car traveling at the speed of light, and you turn the
> > > > car's headlights on, what happens?
> > > > And DON'T give me any technobabble.
> > > >                         C. Capps
> > >
> > > You get pulled over by the cops for speeding.  :-)
> > >
> > > Cya in 'da mines,
> > > Thursday
> > >
> > > +-------------------------------------------------+
> > > | Jason C. Wenger       www.clinton.net/~jwenger/ |
> > > | 'Thursday' on Kali          jwe...@clinton.net |
> > > | Illegitimi no carborundum      jwe...@juno.com |
> > > +-------------------------------------------------+
> [snip]
> > The answer is nothing.  The light that comes from the headlight will be
> > traveling at the exact same speed you are.  It would remain where it
> > is.  In effect.
> 
> Finally!  That *is* the answer to the question.  Finally someone with a
> serious answer.
>                         C. Capps
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I thought the speed of light was relative to your frame of reference.

Besides travelling at the speed of light.... how would you see what was
in front of you. Those had better be tachyon headlights you've got on
your car :P