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To: NormsRevenge
[ Even today it can be seen racing outward at one and a half million miles per hour (2.4 million kilometers per hour). ]

I thought light speed was was the fastest speed possible...?

18 posted on 12/02/2003 7:14:08 PM PST by hosepipe
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To: hosepipe
"... Even today it can be seen racing outward at one and a half million miles per hour (2.4 million kilometers per hour). ] I thought light speed was was the fastest speed possible...?"

Yes, but light travels at 186,282 Miles PER SECOND, so even though a million miles an hour sounds fast, that is NOTHING compared to the speed of light.
20 posted on 12/02/2003 7:21:19 PM PST by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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To: hosepipe
Even today it can be seen racing outward at one and a half million miles per hour (2.4 million kilometers per hour).

I thought light speed was was the fastest speed possible...?

Yeah, but the the speed of light is six hundred sixty nine million, six hundred thousand miles per hour.

24 posted on 12/02/2003 7:37:22 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: hosepipe
The speed per hour works out to about 41 miles per second, if I have done my arithmetic correctly, or a bit more than twice the speed the earth is going as it revolves around the sun.
30 posted on 12/02/2003 8:33:19 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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