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To: Indy Pendance

Although faster than the earth's rotation, it would have to be thousands of times faster to really exhibit time dialation for the pilot.

If he was in the air 23 hours and landed in the same spot he took off, it would still be 23 hours later :)


2 posted on 02/05/2005 3:19:29 PM PST by ruiner
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To: ruiner
Well they said, the plane flew faster than the earth's rotation. Like I asked, over a sustainable period of time, say weeks or months, what would happen?
6 posted on 02/05/2005 3:23:08 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: ruiner

Well they took an atomic clock on plane far slower than the blackbird and flew it around the world and it was off by a fraction of a second.


7 posted on 02/05/2005 3:23:35 PM PST by Flightdeck (Liberals see Saddam's mass graves as half full. I prefer to see them as half empty.)
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To: ruiner

Blackbird's Prayer:

Yea, though I fly through the Valley of Death, I shall fear no evil.

For I am at 80,000 feet and still climbing!


22 posted on 02/05/2005 3:33:50 PM PST by chaosagent (It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
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To: ruiner

"Although faster than the earth's rotation, it would have to be thousands of times faster to really exhibit time dialation for the pilot.

If he was in the air 23 hours and landed in the same spot he took off, it would still be 23 hours later :)"

Alas, time travel is restricted to only one direction and at a constant rate. That is, only for us mortals.


310 posted on 02/06/2005 12:07:14 PM PST by SaltyJoe ("Social Justice" begins with the unborn child.)
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