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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ 300 times the speed of light

Posted by: lyford Dec 8 2009, 02:25 AM

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2701/es2701page01.cfm

Doesn't do the proper blue shift though

Posted by: Hungry4info Dec 8 2009, 07:46 AM

The distance between Neptune and Pluto seems exaggerated. But I didn't time it.

Posted by: MahFL Dec 8 2009, 03:40 PM

The 5 1/2 hour trip would make for a cool evening's entertainment.

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Dec 8 2009, 06:12 PM

On the one hand the time between planets does work out to that velocity, however the actual visual demonstration of the planet passing during the "encounters" has to be vastly slower than that.

Posted by: centsworth_II Dec 8 2009, 06:14 PM

QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 8 2009, 01:12 PM)

... the actual visual demonstration of the planet passing during the "encounters" has to be vastly slower than that.

At 300 times the speed of light?!

Posted by: ngunn Dec 8 2009, 09:21 PM

I took the 300c trip and found myself whizzed back in my imagination to when I was only three years old. You'd never believe how much work it took to re-imagine myself back here, fortunately without causal paradoxes.

Posted by: Floyd Dec 9 2009, 05:02 PM

"Doesn't do the proper blue shift though"

That is to save your eyes--it would be blue shifted all the way to x-rays.
(On the old CRTs you could get x-rays, but I don't think LCDs are up to it)