Tag: speed of light
Sturgeon Be Damned 2000
Sturgeon’s Law states that 90% of everything is crap. Frankly, I think on this site I’m running a lot higher than that, probably 95% plus. But, heck, that means in any given year, there’s stuff that isn’t crap on this site, as difficult to believe as that might be. So, as the noughties draw to a [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2009 under meta.
Tags: bj and the bear, bold prediction, christmas movie, coward of the county, kenny rogers, speed of light, sturgeon be damned, sweet nostalgia
Comments: 2
A Quick Poser
I have been thinking a lot recently about the superhero The Flash (aka The Scarlet Speedster aka That Really Fast Bastard) and what I don’t comprehend is how the Flash can run at the speed of light. For elementary relativity theory tells us that as objects approach the speed of light, their mass increases to [...]
Posted: November 20th, 1999 under thoughts.
Tags: infinity, mass increases, oprah, relativity theory, speed of light
Comments: 1