POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Surprise! : Re: Surprise! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 21:20:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Surprise!  
From: Phil Cook
Date: 9 Nov 2007 11:11:03
Message: <op.t1i8dpu0c3xi7v@news.povray.org>
And lo on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:19:00 -0000, Nicolas Alvarez  
<nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> did spake, saying:


>> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>> news:47342cbb$1@news.povray.org...
>>> For light, the velocity varies a little, but it's roughly 300,000 km/s.
>>  Ur, no. The speed of light in a vacuum doesn't vary at all. It's a  
>> universal
>> constant.
>>  299 792 458 m.s^-1
>
> ...
>
> How the HECK did they measure that o_O

A stopwatch and an astronaut with really quick reflexes.

-- 
Phil Cook

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