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by acsguitar » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:24 pm
suppasonic wrote:acsguitar wrote:AcidRock23 wrote:I think that it would likely be a fraction of a second, rather than several seconds. 4000 mph is fast but is relatively slow, as it were...

4000 mph = ~ 1 Mile Per Second Speed of light is ~ 186000 miles per second
Wouldn't 3600 mph be one mile per second?
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by suppasonic » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:48 pm
acsguitar wrote:suppasonic wrote:acsguitar wrote:AcidRock23 wrote:I think that it would likely be a fraction of a second, rather than several seconds. 4000 mph is fast but is relatively slow, as it were...

4000 mph = ~ 1 Mile Per Second Speed of light is ~ 186000 miles per second
Wouldn't 3600 mph be one mile per second?
Did you notice my ~ symbol
Yes, but thats a 10% difference, which is more then ~.
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by DK » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:53 pm
suppasonic wrote:acsguitar wrote:suppasonic wrote:acsguitar wrote:AcidRock23 wrote:I think that it would likely be a fraction of a second, rather than several seconds. 4000 mph is fast but is relatively slow, as it were...

4000 mph = ~ 1 Mile Per Second Speed of light is ~ 186000 miles per second
Wouldn't 3600 mph be one mile per second?
Did you notice my ~ symbol
Yes, but thats a 10% difference, which is more then ~.
Either way I think we can agree that whether it be 1.1 miles per second or 1 mile per second, it's a lot different than 186,000 miles per second. Agreed?

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by Coppermine » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:59 pm
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