Are People Really This Dumb?
DeathToll_David
Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7902Members
Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7902Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Columbia *sigh*</div> This by no means is meant to trivialize the Columbia disaster in anyway what so ever. I just cannot believe that someone at CNN could make such an obvious and ridiculous error. It makes me wonder if people really are just dumb.
Come on really - just look at this image. *sigh*
Come on really - just look at this image. *sigh*
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P.S. Where did you get the picture?
and they had this girl from baywatch on it. Now Alex asked "How fast is the speed of light"
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I think I just lost all hope for humanity.
So for those who dont know anything about Asrtonomy, Physics - or even Sci Fi - the only thing that travels faster than the speed of light, is well, faster light.
If the Shuttle was traveling 18 times faster than the speed of light - it would be orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy instead of Earth every time it went into space.
Speed of sound and speed of light are two VERY different things. lol
Hehe, indeed.
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18 x the speed of light = going back in time really fast.
This just proves humanity is so stupid when we put our faith in guys who aren't even respectable.
Mach 18 is still really, really fast - the shuttle is surrounded by <i>plasma</i> at the time of re-entry. That reminds me of all the journalists asking questions about escape pods. "Couldn't they have just hit the eject button?" "No. If such a thing existed, using it would kill everyone onboard instantly." "Oh. I'll go eat some more paint chips now."
I took a bit a creative liberty with the quotes, so sue me.
Since when was CNN a good news source anyways?
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It's not nearly as bad as the typo they made when they wrote the name of Niger Lewis (an African American civil rights leader - I think) in an interview.
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And They did find out that the faster you go the slower time passes.
When a shuttle came down, the chronometer on it was set to (not exact times, just what the time-decay was) 2230:23:50
the chronometer located at NORAD read 2230:24:00
By passing around 21k-25k MPH they successfully time-traveled 10 hundredths of a second.
Actually, you're probably right.
My point was that even the smallest typos in live TV broadcasting can have HUGE ramifications.
Time is not completely separate from and independent of space as you would ordinarily assume. In his Special Relativity theory, Einstein assumed that the fundamental laws of physics do not depend on your location or motion. Two people, one in a stationary laboratory and another in a laboratory aboard a train or rocket moving in a straight line at uniform speed, should get the same results in any experiment they conduct. In fact, if the laboratory in the train or rocket is soundproof and has no windows, there is no experiment a person could conduct that would show he/she is moving.
A stationary observer will find (1) the length of a fast-moving object is less than if the object was at rest, and (2) the passage of time on the fast-moving object is slower than if the object was at rest. However, an observer inside the fast-moving object sees everything inside as their normal length and time passes normally, but all of the lengths in the world outside are shrunk and the outside world's clocks are running slow.
One example of the slowing of time at high speeds that is observed all of the time is what happens when cosmic rays (extremely high-energy particles, mostly protons) strike the Earth's atmosphere. A shower of very fast-moving muon particles are created very high up in the atmosphere. Muons have very short lifetimes---only a couple of millionths of a second. Their short lifetime should allow them to travel at most 600 meters. However they reach the surface after travelling more than 100 kilometers! Because they are moving close to the speed of light, the muons' internal clocks are running much slower than stationary muons. But in their own reference frame, the fast-moving muons's clocks run forward ``normally'' and the muons live only a couple of millionths of a second.
Another consequence of Special Relativity is that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Any object with mass moving near the speed of light would experience an increase in its mass. That mass would approach infinity as it reached light speed and would, therefore, require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate it to light speed. The fastest possible speed any form of information or force (including gravity) can operate is at the speed of light. Newton's law of gravity seemed to imply that the force of gravity would instantly change between two objects if one was moved---Newton's gravity had infinite speed (a violation of Special Relativity). The three strange effects of Special Relativity (shrinking lengths, slowing time, increasing mass) are only noticeable at speeds that are greater than about ten percent of the speed of light. Numerous experiments using very high-speed objects have shown that Special Relativity is correct.
Special Relativity also predicts that matter can be converted into energy and energy in to matter. By applying Newton's second law of motion to the energy of motion for something moving at high speed (its ``kinetic energy''), you will find that energy = mass × (speed of light)2. More concisely, this is Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2. This result also applies to an object at rest in which case, you will refer to its ``rest mass'' and its ``rest energy'', the energy equivalent of mass. The amount of rest energy in something as small as your astronomy textbook, for example, is tremendous. If all of the matter in say, a textbook was converted to energy, it would be enough energy to send a million tons to the Moon!
MAN IT TOOK A LONG TIME TO TYPE THAT! Here is a story that was released on Jan 8 that I found very interesting. It proves that Einstein was right when he theorized that gravity and light move at the same speed.
<a href='http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/01/08/gravity.speed.ap/' target='_blank'>http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/01/08/g...avity.speed.ap/</a>
There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light.
She went out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned the previous night!
-Reginald Buller
So far, there is no evidence for the existence of tachyons. A tachyon is a theoretical particle or wave which travels faster than the speed of light. Tachyons exist in a theoretical world where objects have negative mass and time goes backwards.