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To: Kermit
"1 million miles per hour. What's the speed of light? 186,000 miles per hour or miles per second?"

186,000mi/sec x 3,600sec/hr = 669,600,000mi/hr

That's six hundred and sixty-nine million six hundred thousand miles per hour. About the distance it takes a signal to travel from earth to Jupiter (one light hour).

27 posted on 05/11/2002 7:53:15 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: StormEye
Thanks, I was thinking that the speed they were giving was faster than the speed of light. Which of course would blew up Relativity Theory.
29 posted on 05/11/2002 8:21:30 PM PDT by Kermit
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