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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?

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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 14, 2016 at 10:15 am
And yes, folks, ♫Jesus was a Capricorn♫ is still correct.

I think.
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 14, 2016 at 12:05 pm
(September 13, 2016 at 4:53 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(September 13, 2016 at 3:29 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Beats hubris. And now I'll never be wrong about the speed of light  again.

You know the rule about which lessons stick...


In my experience caning doesn't work.
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 14, 2016 at 12:07 pm
(September 13, 2016 at 5:16 pm)Jesster Wrote:
(September 13, 2016 at 5:13 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: What and Dad didn't have to convert? Thought Jawash parents were real snippy about that sort of thing.

That's what I heard.

Have you ever tried arguing with a Wookiee?


Wait a minute.  You're telling me Drich is a Wookiee?!
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 14, 2016 at 12:11 pm
(September 14, 2016 at 12:05 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(September 13, 2016 at 4:53 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: You know the rule about which lessons stick...


In my experience caning doesn't work.

Never said anything about caning.
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 14, 2016 at 12:14 pm
But an oak staff could be fatal.
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 14, 2016 at 12:23 pm
(September 14, 2016 at 12:14 pm)Whateverist Wrote: But an oak staff could be fatal.

It's a slow news day, so I'll ask you to explain how you got corporal punishment from my post?
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 14, 2016 at 8:59 pm
(September 14, 2016 at 9:25 am)Alex K Wrote: As I always like to reiterate, the rest frame of a photon is not a mathematically well-defined frame of reference that is valid in relativity. I consider the collapse of all of space to an infinitely thin sheet from this vantage point as a mathematical pathology.

That's cuz every photon is really just a Big Bang singularity fractally nested inside itself, in other words. . . God.

Dude, don't make me draw a picture!
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 15, 2016 at 12:39 am
(September 14, 2016 at 8:59 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(September 14, 2016 at 9:25 am)Alex K Wrote: As I always like to reiterate, the rest frame of a photon is not a mathematically well-defined frame of reference that is valid in relativity. I consider the collapse of all of space to an infinitely thin sheet from this vantage point as a mathematical pathology.

That's cuz every photon is really just a Big Bang singularity fractally nested inside itself, in other words. . . God.

Dude, don't make me draw a picture!

I believe Arki already has got it covered Tongue
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 15, 2016 at 1:24 am
(September 14, 2016 at 9:24 am)bennyboy Wrote:
(September 14, 2016 at 8:43 am)Alex K Wrote: Fortunately, if you travel near the speed of light, much  less time passes for you, the traveller, than on Earth!

And if you're lucky enough to be a photon, you get to have NO time pass, which means that from your perspective, the sun you came from and the skin you get absorbed into are touching.  And if space is an illusion in one frame of reference, it must be an illusion in ALL frames of reference.


Or something.

(insert geometrical crayon drawing here)
Yeah, that's what I was talking about.
We say it takes a certain amount of light years to get somewhere but if you were travelling at the speed of light it would take no time at all.
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 15, 2016 at 7:53 am
Conversely, if you travel interstellar at anything less than the speed of light, it would take you the rest of your life to get anywhere.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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