Correspondent:: Zapanaz Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 03:31:37 -0800
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so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
your headlights.
does anything happen?
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Correspondent:: phy Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:42:10 GMT
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Zapanaz wrote in
news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com:
>
> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> your headlights.
>
> does anything happen?
>
IIRC the light moves away from you at the speed of light. For some reason,
the light does not move at twice the speed of light to someone not moving.
I try not to think about it too much. I pretty much gave up faith in in the
infallability of math type things when I was introduced to the concept of
the square root of negative one.
-phy
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:53:06 GMT
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phy wrote:
>Zapanaz wrote in
>news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com:
>
>>
>> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
>> your headlights.
>>
>> does anything happen?
>>
>
>IIRC the light moves away from you at the speed of light. For some reason,
>the light does not move at twice the speed of light to someone not moving.
>I try not to think about it too much. I pretty much gave up faith in in the
>infallability of math type things when I was introduced to the concept of
>the square root of negative one.
>
>-phy
I think that if you're driving FTL and turn-on your headlights,
the light shines out of your exhuast pipe.
I have wondered if light accelerates when being sucked into
black holes. The line-of-sight on Earth is slightly bent by gravity,
not enough to match the curvature of the Earth or we'd be able
to see around the world, but the line of sight is bent and some
correction is factored-in for long distance geodesy.
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:36:52 GMT
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> >Zapanaz wrote in
> >news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com:
> >>
> >> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> >> your headlights.
> >> does anything happen?
No, DUMBASS. If you're "driving" at the speed of light in your car,
you're already in big trouble, because your wretched little Ford will be
mashed into its component atoms about 3/4 of a picosecond before that of
your smirking GODDAMNED WHITE BOY NEIGHBOR WHO PLAYS RAP IN HIS
CLATTERING OLD LINCOLN TOWN CAR AT TOOTH-LOOSENING LEVELS. Slow down,
fer godssakes, whatever it is, it'll keep or kill me.
--
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You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself --
and how little I deserve it.
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Correspondent:: "Ouroboros Rex" Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:58:25 -0600
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"phy" wrote in message
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> Zapanaz wrote in
> news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com:
>
> >
> > so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> > your headlights.
> >
> > does anything happen?
> >
>
> IIRC the light moves away from you at the speed of light. For some reason,
time dilation
> the light does not move at twice the speed of light to someone not moving.
> I try not to think about it too much. I pretty much gave up faith in in
the
> infallability of math type things when I was introduced to the concept of
> the square root of negative one.
>
> -phy
Correspondent:: Vaylor Trucks Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:08:18 -0500
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Time dilation is exactly right - as your speed approaches the speed of
light, the passage of time approaches 0, making it theoretically
impossible to actually be driving at the speed of light - or else the
entire universe might get a "divided by 0" error (wonder if our universe
has robust error checking or if the whole thing will just crash.)
Ouroboros Rex wrote:
> "phy" wrote in message
> news:Xns95F362A0D18E5phy00xyahoocom@69.28.186.121...
>
>>Zapanaz wrote in
>>news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com:
>>
>>
>>>so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
>>>your headlights.
>>>
>>>does anything happen?
>>>
>>
>>IIRC the light moves away from you at the speed of light. For some reason,
>
>
> time dilation
>
>
>
>>the light does not move at twice the speed of light to someone not moving.
>>I try not to think about it too much. I pretty much gave up faith in in
>
> the
>
>>infallability of math type things when I was introduced to the concept of
>>the square root of negative one.
>>
>>-phy
>
>
>
Correspondent:: Zapanaz Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:37:40 -0800
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:08:18 -0500, Vaylor Trucks
wrote:
>Time dilation is exactly right - as your speed approaches the speed of
>light, the passage of time approaches 0, making it theoretically
>impossible to actually be driving at the speed of light - or else the
>entire universe might get a "divided by 0" error (wonder if our universe
>has robust error checking or if the whole thing will just crash.)
>
But, it is possible to drive to a star two light years away in one
year.
>Ouroboros Rex wrote:
>> "phy" wrote in message
>> news:Xns95F362A0D18E5phy00xyahoocom@69.28.186.121...
>>
>>>Zapanaz wrote in
>>>news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com:
>>>
>>>
>>>>so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
>>>>your headlights.
>>>>
>>>>does anything happen?
>>>>
>>>
>>>IIRC the light moves away from you at the speed of light. For some reason,
>>
>>
>> time dilation
>>
>>
>>
>>>the light does not move at twice the speed of light to someone not moving.
>>>I try not to think about it too much. I pretty much gave up faith in in
>>
>> the
>>
>>>infallability of math type things when I was introduced to the concept of
>>>the square root of negative one.
>>>
>>>-phy
>>
>>
>>
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that they lose their common sense.
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Correspondent:: Eddie Vroom Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:46:06 GMT
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phy wrote:
> Zapanaz wrote in
> news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com:
>
>
>>so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
>>your headlights.
>>
>>does anything happen?
>>
>
>
> IIRC the light moves away from you at the speed of light. For some reason,
> the light does not move at twice the speed of light to someone not moving.
Yeah, the lights come on, and anyone in your path gets hardcore
radiation burns.
> I try not to think about it too much.
I'm slowly learning such wisdom.
--
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the White Lotus Fortune Cookie Company
June 23, 2004
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:01:18 GMT
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Eddie Vroom wrote:
>phy wrote:
>> Zapanaz wrote in
>> news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com:
>>
>>
>>>so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
>>>your headlights.
>>>
>>>does anything happen?
>>>
>>
>>
>> IIRC the light moves away from you at the speed of light. For some reason,
>> the light does not move at twice the speed of light to someone not moving.
>
>Yeah, the lights come on, and anyone in your path gets hardcore
>radiation burns.
>
Feh! I can do that flying into the beach in a P-3 with the lights turned on.
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"Zapanaz" wrote in message
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>
> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> your headlights.
>
> does anything happen?
Yes.
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:27:18 -0500
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In article <75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com>, Zapanaz wrote:
> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> your headlights.
>
> does anything happen?
You'll tail-end the fucking light coming from your headlights, is what
you'll do. Duh. Why do you think they have LAWS? It's so dumb-shits
won't hurt themselves negating gravity and erasing history and so on.
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Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0" Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:17:17 -0700
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Zapanaz wrote:
>
> so you're driving in your car at the speed of
> light, and you turn on your headlights.
>
> does anything happen?
From your point of view, the light from your
headlights projects at the speed of light from
your car.
From the point of view of someone who is not
moving, which is to say, moving with the galaxy
at a high rate of speed but not in your direction,
no light seems to be leaving your headlights, i.e.,
you and your headlights light have both maxed the
speed limit. A multiple vector perspective.
From the point of view who is absolutely not moving,
that is, who is not moving in relation to the
galaxy, which is rapidly moving around them, it
would also appear the same way, though only looking
at your movement from a dual vector perspective,
that is, your movements in relation to the galaxies.
From the point of view of someone you are heading
towards, the white light of your headlights appears
to be blue; from someone your heading away from, it
appears red (assuming you are shining your headlights
in a mirror, not just them seeing your tail lights.)
This is the "Doppler shift".
From the point of view of the traffic cop, you are
going to be the biggest speeding ticket he has ever
written.
--
Herring communicate with each other
via a high-pitched, "raspberry"-like
sound emitted from their anuses.
These noises are not produced by
digestive gases.
-- from 'The New Scientist'
Correspondent:: Zapanaz Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:00:57 -0800
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 03:31:37 -0800, Zapanaz
wrote:
>
>so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
>your headlights.
>
>does anything happen?
All of your answers are WRONG
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG
Nothing happens because you forgot to pay your relativity bill this
month.
--
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International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of
person I'm preaching to."
"Bob"
Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR" Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:26:15 -0500
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>>Nothing happens because you forgot to pay your relativity bill this
month.
I was going to say the electrons that heat the filaments of the lights, also
travelling at the speed of light, wouldn't get to the headlights.
But by the time you reached light speed, your weight would be infinite and
the amount of power needed to keep you going at that speed would be
infinite. You would have already shrunk to an immeasurable size, BTW.
So the question is, if you could command ALL THAT POWER AND WEIGHT...and
were for all intents and purposes, undetectable...
What the fuck would you HAVE the headlights do?
[*]
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Correspondent:: Zapanaz Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:37:49 -0800
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:26:15 -0500, "iDRMRSR"
wrote:
>>>Nothing happens because you forgot to pay your relativity bill this
>month.
>
>I was going to say the electrons that heat the filaments of the lights, also
>travelling at the speed of light, wouldn't get to the headlights.
>
>But by the time you reached light speed, your weight would be infinite and
>the amount of power needed to keep you going at that speed would be
>infinite. You would have already shrunk to an immeasurable size, BTW.
>
>So the question is, if you could command ALL THAT POWER AND WEIGHT...and
>were for all intents and purposes, undetectable...
>
that would make a good superhero. Mr. Turns Invisible When He Turns
Sideways Mighty Man. He would need a lot of room on his chest for
that name though.
"A terrible accident at the particle accelerator lab turned Dick
Smurdley into ... Mr. Turns Invisible When He Turns Sideways Mighty
Man!"
eh
maybe not.
>What the fuck would you HAVE the headlights do?
>
>[*]
>-----
>
--
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International Satanic Conspiracy
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properly used, religion is the methamphetamine
of the masses." - nu-monet v6.0 in alt.slack
Correspondent:: "Paul E. Jamison" Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:19:13 -0600
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"Zapanaz" wrote in message
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>
> that would make a good superhero. Mr. Turns Invisible When He Turns
> Sideways Mighty Man. He would need a lot of room on his chest for
> that name though.
>
> "A terrible accident at the particle accelerator lab turned Dick
> Smurdley into ... Mr. Turns Invisible When He Turns Sideways Mighty
> Man!"
>
> eh
>
> maybe not.
>
Sounds like something from a sketch on "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?"
Paul
Correspondent:: "Rev. Richard Skull" Date: 4 Feb 2005 15:38:02 -0800
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<
your headlights.
does anything happen? >>
First of all, the old Big Mac wrappers on the floor of my car prevent
the accelerator form being pushed to the floor.
Second, my car will not survive another car wash.
Third, when I fill the gas tank, the value of my car triples!
Correspondent:: "Paul Casino" Date: 4 Feb 2005 16:14:09 -0800
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The same thing that happens when a tree falls in the woods and no one
is around to hear it. Someone looks at you and says "Hey, do you have
any more cliche's to throw out at us or are you fresh out?"
Correspondent:: "just john" Date: 6 Feb 2005 12:43:06 -0800
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First thing that happens is you turn into Steven Wright.
Correspondent:: "just john" Date: 6 Feb 2005 12:45:12 -0800
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First thing that happens is you turn into Steven Wright.
Correspondent:: Zapanaz Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:22:33 -0800
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On 6 Feb 2005 12:45:12 -0800, "just john"
wrote:
>First thing that happens is you turn into Steven Wright.
I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then
I said
to the guy, "Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that
is
traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does
anything
happen?" He said, "I don't know." I said, "I don't want your job."
-- Steven Wright
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Correspondent:: "ArWeGod" Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:50:53 GMT
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"Zapanaz" wrote in message
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>
> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> your headlights.
>
> does anything happen?
You die in the cold of space 2.5 seconds after you achieve lightspeed,
because your windows are not that airtight...
--
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Correspondent:: "ArWeGod" Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:59:22 GMT
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"Zapanaz" wrote in message
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>
> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> your headlights.
>
> does anything happen?
No. My headlight is broken.
--
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Correspondent:: "ArWeGod" Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:01:36 GMT
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"Zapanaz" wrote in message
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>
> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> your headlights.
>
> does anything happen?
If there is anything in front of me to look at, I crash into it.
I going really, fast you see, and if there is "something" in front of
me, it must have mass, so it can't travel at the speed of light, see, so
I hit it really fast and really hard.
Ouch!
--
ArWeFlying
Correspondent:: "Irreverend kd" Date: 11 Feb 2005 19:59:32 -0800
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See what you did! Bad Joe Cosby! Bad ArWeGod!
(Now THIS is the speed of LIGHT!)
Star Escaping the Milky Way Galaxy
By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Feb. 9) - An outcast star is zooming out of the Milky Way,
the first ever seen escaping the galaxy, astronomers reported on
Tuesday.
The star is heading for the emptiness of intergalactic space after
being ejected from the heart of the Milky Way following a close
encounter with a black hole, said Warren Brown, an astronomer at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The outcast is going so fast -- over 1.5 million mph -- that
astronomers believe it was lobbed out of the galaxy by the tremendous
force of a black hole thought to sit at the Milky Way's center. That
speed is about twice the velocity needed to escape the galaxy's grip,
Brown said by telephone.
"We have never before seen a star moving fast enough to completely
escape the confines of our galaxy," he said. "We're tempted to call it
the outcast star because it was forcefully tossed from its home."
The star used to be part of a binary pair, waltzing with its companion
star close to the rim of the black hole. In this case, "close" is a
relative term; the actual distance was probably about 50 times the 93
million-mile distance between Earth and the sun.
As the two stars twirled around each other, they were pulled faster and
faster toward the edge of the black hole, one of those monster drains
in space whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can
escape once it is consumed.
While the companion star was captured by the black hole, the outcast
continued on its whirling path around its edge.
Objects go faster the closer they get to black holes and this star was
probably moving at extraordinary speed, perhaps as high as 20 million
mph. That very speed, coupled with the speed of its twirling, sent the
outcast zooming toward the edge of the Milky Way and beyond.
At this point, the outcast is about 180,000 light-years from Earth, in
an outer region of the galaxy known as the halo. A light-year is about
6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year.
02/08/05 16:52
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0" Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:22:09 -0700
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Irreverend kd wrote:
>
> WASHINGTON (Feb. 9) - An outcast star is zooming out
> of the Milky Way, the first ever seen escaping the
> galaxy, astronomers reported on Tuesday.
> The star is heading for the emptiness of intergalactic
> space after being ejected from the heart of the Milky
> Way following a close encounter with a black hole, said
> Warren Brown, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian
> Center for Astrophysics.
They have decided to name it "Lucifer".
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"GET DOWN WITH MY SICKNESS!!"
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Correspondent:: "kdetal" Date: 11 Feb 2005 20:34:47 -0800
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nu-monet v7.0 wrote:
> Irreverend kd wrote:
> >
> > WASHINGTON (Feb. 9) - An outcast star is zooming out
> > of the Milky Way, the first ever seen escaping the
> > galaxy, astronomers reported on Tuesday.
> > The star is heading for the emptiness of intergalactic
> > space after being ejected from the heart of the Milky
> > Way following a close encounter with a black hole, said
> > Warren Brown, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian
> > Center for Astrophysics.
>
>
> They have decided to name it "Lucifer".
Coming soon: Bible- The Sequel: Sun of Satan
Correspondent:: "kdetal" Date: 11 Feb 2005 20:30:51 -0800
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ArWeGod wrote:
> "Zapanaz" wrote in message
> news:75n601pgbib8d0jufc0bad0no19c5g0i1k@4ax.com...
> >
> > so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn
on
> > your headlights.
> >
> > does anything happen?
>
> If there is anything in front of me to look at, I crash into it.
>
> I going really, fast you see, and if there is "something" in front of
> me, it must have mass, so it can't travel at the speed of light, see,
so
> I hit it really fast and really hard.
>
> Ouch!
>
> --
> ArWeFlying
See what you did! Bad Joe Cosby! Bad ArWeGod!
(Now THIS is the speed of LIGHT)
Star Escaping the Milky Way Galaxy
By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Feb. 9) - An outcast star is zooming out of the Milky Way,
the first ever seen escaping the galaxy, astronomers reported on
Tuesday.
The star is heading for the emptiness of intergalactic space after
being ejected from the heart of the Milky Way following a close
encounter with a black hole, said Warren Brown, an astronomer at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The outcast is going so fast -- over 1.5 million mph -- that
astronomers believe it was lobbed out of the galaxy by the tremendous
force of a black hole thought to sit at the Milky Way's center. That
speed is about twice the velocity needed to escape the galaxy's grip,
Brown said by telephone.
"We have never before seen a star moving fast enough to completely
escape the confines of our galaxy," he said. "We're tempted to call it
the outcast star because it was forcefully tossed from its home."
The star used to be part of a binary pair, waltzing with its companion
star close to the rim of the black hole. In this case, "close" is a
relative term; the actual distance was probably about 50 times the 93
million-mile distance between Earth and the sun.
As the two stars twirled around each other, they were pulled faster and
faster toward the edge of the black hole, one of those monster drains
in space whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can
escape once it is consumed.
While the companion star was captured by the black hole, the outcast
continued on its whirling path around its edge.
Objects go faster the closer they get to black holes and this star was
probably moving at extraordinary speed, perhaps as high as 20 million
mph. That very speed, coupled with the speed of its twirling, sent the
outcast zooming toward the edge of the Milky Way and beyond.
At this point, the outcast is about 180,000 light-years from Earth, in
an outer region of the galaxy known as the halo. A light-year is about
6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year.
02/08/05 16:52
Correspondent:: "ArWeGod" Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:03:38 GMT
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"Zapanaz" wrote in message
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>
> so you're driving in your car at the speed of light, and you turn on
> your headlights.
>
> does anything happen?
No, I'm traveling at Warp 2 and if I turn on my headlights I will crash
into the light barrier I just created in front of me.