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Re: Lightspeed constant...

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From: Richard RUDEK
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:00
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Ripper <rip...@flash.net> wrote:

>> :>You people need to be a little more creative. You don't need headlights
>> :>at the speed of light. All you have to do is put a big reflector at the
>> :>rear end of the car. As bright as your car will be glowing at that
>> :>speed, it will illuminate its own way. Duh!
>> :>
>> :>-Raffi

>Quick question. How's it gonna light its own way when the car is
>traveling at the same speed as the light being used to illuminate the
>way? You would not see any light at all if you were traveling at light
>speed because the light would never catch up to you if it were behind
>you, and you would never catch up to it if it was ahead of you. So

What about from the side ?

BTW, why is this being spammed. I can't figure out which newsgroup it
is suppose to be in. They're all comp.*. Shouldn't it be sci.??

I suspect mba...@gl.umbc.edu is the culprit. This was the first
message of this batch.
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From: rrudek@zeta.org.au.NoJunkMail (Richard RUDEK)
Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant...
Date: 1996/11/19
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