#speed of light

[theofficialastronomy101]

A blurred photo of Sun? No! This is the clearest image ever taken of a star named Antares, located 550 light years from Earth.

[baguetteseagull]

Lucky Luke is known to be shooting faster than his shadow. But how fast is that?

First of all, since light travels at a certain speed, actually everyone and everything is faster than his own shadow or more specifically the movement of your shadow starts with a very very short delay to you. But in this picture you can see, lucky luke shot his shadow before the shadow even startet its movement. So how fast does he have to be, for this picture to be correct?

Light travelles at 299,702,547 meters per second in air and he is standing about 3 meters away from the fence (actually more like 2,5m but we give him some more time)

So this means:

3m ÷ 299,702,547m/s = ca. 0.00000001 sec. Or 10 nanoseconds.

LUCKY LUKE NEEDS LESS THAN 10 NANOSECONDS TO SHOOT

The record holder in fast draw right now is Ernie Hill with 0,208 seconds.

Lucky Luke is 20,800,000 times faster than the fastest draw.

Thats the stuff i think about when I'm in the shower...

[odinsblog]

[cosmonautroger]

[krjpalmer]

Profiles May 1986

A RAM-resident spelling checker for MS-DOS that worked with other programs as you typed (modestly billed by Borland as "the fastest, most amazing information system since your brain"), add-on RAM disks for your CP/M Kaypro (with the article illustrated with what looked a lot like an IBM PC AT), and "UNIX-like enhancements" (or "software tools") for CP/M promised "speed" in this issue.

[rbrooksdesign]

December 25, 2025, Reginald Brooks --> acrylic painting, and, -->brush & ink

Assumption 25:

The Small LIGO In Your Head (part 5 of a 10-part closing)

SIDE NOTE: Let's repeat that: all the Conservation Laws distill down to the ultimate Conservation Law -- CoST... As described more fully in the next side note, the speed of light (c) is constant because it is built into -- i.e. is part and parcel of -- the ST wave that informs all forms of ST expression: energy matter and fields -- through pulse-propagation. Each pulse travels 1 wavelength and occurs at a frequency such that its product equals the constant velocity of light, c.

[humanoidhistory]

Simulating the speed of light in The Ultimate Machine, 1971.

[galaxywarp]

SPEED OF LIGHT - Kill the Vibe (live)