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...said so. His special theory of relativity had at its heart an astonishing claim: the speed of light in a vacuum is always the same, for all observers. Shine a flashlight out into space and the light goes at 186,000 m.p.s. Jump into a spaceship and chase the beam at 185,000 m.p.s. and it recedes from you not at 1,000 m.p.s. but at 186,000 m.p.s. If you head in the opposite direction at 185,000 m.p.s., the light beam still moves away at...you guessed...
...satellite venture called Agrani (Sanskrit for "staying ahead"), which aims to provide satellite telephone service to the more than 50% of Indians who still do not have reliable phone access. "What satellites do best is provide connectivity to remote areas," he says. The satellites will also allow Zee to beam its programs around the world. Once he gets "sat phones" into the hands of ordinary Indians--he thinks it will happen within two or three years--Chandra will start pumping Internet content and e-mail services through them. Other firms have tried this satellite stuff and failed; Chandra dismisses those...
...screamer; he usually sits coolly by the sidelines, reserving his comments for the right moments. In practices he treats players respectfully--but he can get loud if someone isn't living up to his high standards. Slack off and Jackson, who is 6-ft. 8-in. tall, beam-shouldered and deep-voiced, can be intimidating...
...Your typical Cybiko looks like a walkie-talkie with a teensy typewriter keyboard cloned onto it, only cooler, since it comes in four translucent colors (if you count clear and black as colors, that is). Its primary function is wireless chat--you peck out messages on the keyboard and beam them to any other Cybiko users who happen to be around. While the device's range is 300 ft., each has a kind of repeater built in, so that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble a chain of users every few hundred feet...
...Chess, darts--wireless darts, how cool is that!--billiards, poker and dozens of other games are promised, which you can play wirelessly against your Cybiko-toting pals. I was particularly taken with the idea of CyLandia, which features a virtual creature that's like Pokemon except that you can beam it to other users. (Indeed, if you don't take care of it, it will supposedly "flee" to any open Cybiko...