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Re: Starship pilots: speed kills, especially warp speed by theblackbox on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @09:27AM (#1131552)
"It is impossible for matter to travel at the speed of light, yes?"

isn't this an oft quoted erroneous conclusion?

I thought the correct statement was that matter could not accellerate to the speed of light. Thus something could instantaneously attain FTL/Light Speed velocity or come into existance travelling FTL/Light Speed?

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Re: Starship pilots: speed kills, especially warp speed by palish on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @09:46AM (#1131585)
Sorry, no idea. I don't know any details.
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Re: Starship pilots: speed kills, especially warp speed by BearOfNH on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @03:57PM (#1132547)
matter could not accelerate to the speed of light

That was Kevin Spacey's claim in the movie K-Pax.

For all I know, we're falling through time at the speed of light.

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