Michael Tewner <tew...@gmail.com> writes: > "when you travel close to the speed of light" > > 88 Miles per hour?
Michael, This is getting more and mor off-topic, but yes, exactly, 88 mph! I confess, I am a car-buff, a petrol-head, etc. I also like movies. So flame me - my /dev/null is ready. I will assume that you don't know where 88 mph comes from. If you do, sorry - maybe someone else is wondering what you are talking about. Since you mention 88 mph you must have seen "Back to the Future", so you must also remember the line where Marty is shocked that Doc has built a time machine out of a DeLorean, and Doc responds that if one travels through time one might as well do it in style. DeLorean was a sports car produced in N. Ireland (sic!), with quite a cult following. Its speedometer was graded up to 85 mph (we are talking early 80ies here, it *was* fast for its time), so 88 mph in the movie is an inside joke: you *could* reach 88 mph in a DeLorean but would not *know* if or when you did. You may further speculate whether you would know when you reach the speed of light in a real time machine if you can build it. ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il