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Post number 2542

scottandrew — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:52:22 -0800

Speed of light broken. But it may be awhile before we can harness it for anything useful. Fascinating, nonetheless.

By: Bane

Bane — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:04:20 -0800

It's not the fact that it has been blogged here before which bugs me... it's the fact that this is OLD NEWS... If you were posting a link to a neat site you thought you discovered, I wouldn't bother announcing it... But this is news...

By: scottandrew

scottandrew — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:13:21 -0800

Oops...my apologies to the board. It was news to me. Geez, a month ago? Where was I?

By: internook

internook — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:42:54 -0800

Ironic. This was the actual post, you see. That first post was accelerated in cesium gas to appear before it was actually blogged. Think about it...

By: mrmorgan

mrmorgan — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:15:53 -0800

I hadn't heard this before, and thank you for the pointer. I dunno, now I feel an overwhelming urge to search thoroughly through the archives before posting anything older than 24 hours, just to make sure.

By: Mr. skullhead

Mr. skullhead — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:43:14 -0800

Let's not lose our heads here. It's still a good story and probably worth repeating.Just to be the devil's advocate this is far from proven beyond reasonable doubt. Nevertheless, it's most intriguing.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:51:52 -0800

This story is pretty cool, but imagine when they finally break the speed of sound. Man, that'll be cool. What?

By: Ezrael

Ezrael — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:55:18 -0800

I personally think a story about how we may have finally done that which will shut up all those annoying aliens can't possibly have forced you to have sex with their females to create hybrid offspring because they couldn't get here fast enough, Matt motherfuckers who refuse to understand that the aliens are among us is worth repeating. Er, I mean...it's a good story.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:54:29 -0800

I think the whole idea is fascinating. I'm thinking of posting another link to it again sometime next week.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:38:24 -0800

NPR had a skeptical physicist claiming it was effectively an optical illusion. But hey, even Einstein allowed for special circumstances. The thing is, when can we harness this for subspace radio?

By: milhous

milhous — Fri, 21 Jul 2000 01:34:04 -0800

Whoo....wait a minute. Speed of what now?

By: daveadams

daveadams — Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:30:04 -0800

when can we harness this for subspace radio? Right after we build a cesium chamber that stretches the entire distance between all the points you want to communicate between. That shouldn't be too big of a deal, right?

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:36:02 -0800

Cool. How much cesium you got?

By: daveadams

daveadams — Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:22:16 -0800

I've got your cesium right here in my pants!