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Old 06-30-2008, 02:08 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Spiffu View Post
So they've basically made a camera that can intercept light beams coming from a source mid light. (traveling 186,000 miles/second)

Yeah that's definitely something for the record books.
I like it when the speed of light is expressed in miles per second. It puts it in perspective so much better than the 3 times 10 to the eighth meters per second that is often used.
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