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To: BenLurkin

Until we can travel faster than light, or, we meet our maker, we’ll never know if we are all alone or not.


33 posted on 03/23/2013 7:37:23 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Bryan24

The fastest plane, SR-71 also known as Blackbird flew at Mach 3+ speed. Mach = speed of sound = 768 miles per hour = 0.213 miles per second. So the maximum speed achieved by a man made object is 0.65 miles per second.

You can see we are a very long way away from speed of light = 186,000 miles per second (compared to 0.65 miles per second by SR-71).


38 posted on 03/23/2013 7:53:31 PM PDT by entropy12 (The republic is doomed cuz people have figured out they can get free stuff by voting democrats)
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