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The wall that you are heading straight into. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Regards,
1tg46
Check out 3D Game Development with Dark Basic Professional [^]programming.
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All heady theories aside, if the speed of light is fixed and that's the speed you're going, light cannot go any faster than you can. Simple logic says you won’t see anything in ahead of you.
For argument’s sake, let’s take out the speed of light conundrum and use the speed of something else.
If I’m driving down a dark road at the speed of Grandpa’s Rascal and I suddenly push the Rascal, Grandpa and all, out of the car, will Grandpa hit the wall first?
OK, so what's the speed of DARK?
Ozma
Time flies when you don't know what you're doing.
-- modified at 21:12 Tuesday 9th May, 2006
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Ozma6 wrote: Grandpa’s Rascal
Cool car
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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I have to thank Antonio for submitting this question. To date this trivia question has created the most buzz
According to his professor, ”No, you wouldn't see anything because you and your car would be pure energy.”
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
The Code Project Insider
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I'd like to email his prof and ask what the heck the answer means. I thought the question was baffling but the answer is far worse
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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If you can't dazzle 'em with your brilliance, baffle 'em with your bullshit.
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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ur prof is right, i guess, my revision guide tells me that objects with mass can actually never reaches the speed of light, therefore u and ur car have to be energy to fulfill this statement
-- modified at 14:39 Wednesday 10th May, 2006
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Remember E=mc^2, i.e. the equivalence of mass and energy?
What the professor probably means is that you would not have any *rest* mass, which in turn means that you would not be able to travel slower than the speed of speed, and therefore it wouldn't be you behind the wheel because you do have rest mass, and therefore would not be able to reach the speed of light.
I hope this closes the gap between (some of) the answers and shows their consistency.
Alex
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The Physics Part of the IB (or rather my revision guide) teaches me that it is impossible for an object with mass to reach the speed of light, since when the object aproaches the speed of light, its mass would have infinite values.
But over looking that u would see nothing because the speed of light is the same for every observer (in any frame of reverence), so the light rays/waves would actually never leave the bulb.
I wrote my exam on that (Literary today).
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Arctic King, Saladin and Tom Thumb are which types of vegetable?
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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Arctic King is a type of lettuce, so that's my guess.
Tom Bryan
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Lettuce
Christopher Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
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Arctic King, Saladin and Tom Thumb are types of Lettuce.
Dr.Diode
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Lettuce?
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Lettuce.
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
The Code Project Insider
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What is the meaning of the phrase Clawtoo Barraddah Nicktow (phonetic spelling)?
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
The Code Project Insider
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Ah! Finally, a simple one.
The meaning of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto", from the film 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', is never literally translated. It is usually taken to mean "Bring Klaatu to the ship" or "Go get Klaatu". In general, the phrase is meant to convey the concept to the robot Gort that Klaatu is in need of assistance.
Variants of the phrase are also used in the film 'Army of Darkness' for comedic effect.
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Meaning, I don't know, but wasn't this said by Ash in "Army of Darkness"?
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It was used to stop the robot Gort in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" from destroying the earth. The actual phrase could mean "Klaatu is not alive."
It is also the names, phonetically, of Jabba the Hut's three guards on the desert skiff in SW-IV.
Christopher Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
-- modified at 16:57 Friday 5th May, 2006
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Christopher is correct. Klaatu is the name of the humanoid alien, the best consensus found on the subject (internet search) indicates that, as stated by Chris, "Klaatu is not alive", meaning to Gort that, instead of destroying the earth, warm up Klaatu in the microwave.
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The preferred spelling IIRC is "klaautu barrada nicto",
and it is the welcome message from the space visitor
in "The Day The Earth Stood Still", played by Michael
Rennie.
--Jeremy <jeremy@omsys.com>
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The actual line from the movie is Gort! Klaatu barada nikto! which were the instructions given to our heroin Helen (played by Patricia Neal) by the alien Klaatu (played by Michael Rennie) to disable the robot named "Gort" (played by Lock Martin) from destroying the earth in the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (directed by Robert Wise, 1951)
Neil Adams
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