Re: The curiously prescient posts of Nizam "Greybeard" Zambri

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

You have to be careful when you do stuff like that.  At 141000000 
miles per hour (that's less than a third of the speed of light), the 
Doppler shift will cause red lights to appear green, and at a mere 
64000000 they will appear yellow.

At 5:03 PM -0500 2/18/02, alfa-digest wrote:
>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:39:14 -0800
>From: Nizam Zambri <nizam@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: The curiously prescient posts of Nizam "Greybeard" Zambri
>
>Yeah.  I put the 24-valver in the 75 and came close to 2/3 the speed of
>light.  At which point I didn't realize I was going back in time, and my
>bodyweight had risen to a ton-and-a-half.  Luckilly, the Toyo Proxes T-1S
>held up (must be that WR rating).
>
>And then I woke up.  And found that the backup battery in my laptop had
>gone kaput.  Off to "Batteries Plus" and $4 later I have a machine that
>remembers what time it is...
>
>Greybeard

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