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To: Brett66
Our fastest probes might top out, being extremely generous, at 100,000 MPH.

Do we need to consider relativity? Isn't it travelling into the future at that speed, so back on earth we'd have to wait even longer?

19 posted on 02/21/2006 8:52:23 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: SteveMcKing

Realtivistic effects at 100,000 MPH are basically nil. A probe would need to be traveling about 80% the speed of light before it starts becoming noticeable.


21 posted on 02/21/2006 8:56:21 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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