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Travelling at the speed of light?[Question]
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RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question]
October 20, 2015 at 8:35 am
(October 20, 2015 at 7:51 am)Little lunch Wrote: Perhaps in the far future they'll transmit all the information that makes us us, in a light beam/wave/thingy across the universe, at the speed of light, to a waiting automaton that has done all the travelling for us. :-)

Destination star systems => A few thousand to millions of light years away
Travel time as light beam => A few thousand to millions of years

Result => Pointless wastage of time and resources
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Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Heat - October 20, 2015 at 12:30 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Aoi Magi - October 20, 2015 at 12:42 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Heat - October 20, 2015 at 12:50 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 1:10 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 4:45 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 4:38 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 5:09 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 8:55 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 2:43 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 7:15 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Aoi Magi - October 20, 2015 at 8:35 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Aoi Magi - October 20, 2015 at 10:17 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Aoi Magi - October 20, 2015 at 10:45 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 8:45 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 9:34 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 10:54 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Aoi Magi - October 20, 2015 at 12:20 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 1:33 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 20, 2015 at 7:13 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Heat - October 20, 2015 at 6:48 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by robvalue - October 21, 2015 at 10:00 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Heat - October 21, 2015 at 7:42 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Heat - October 21, 2015 at 8:38 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 22, 2015 at 2:14 am
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by IATIA - October 21, 2015 at 9:21 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Heat - October 21, 2015 at 9:40 pm
RE: Travelling at the speed of light?[Question] - by Alex K - October 22, 2015 at 5:53 am

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