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Forget it, though. You'll never go that fast. Albert Einstein 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...
...result from the 5 million bottles of champagne that Americans are expected to drink this New Year's Eve. PMS is a psychological affliction. The Germans, who go in for really long nouns, call it emptiness-from- having-spent-thousands-of-deutsche-marks-(dollars)-stockpiling-the-bunker-(basement)-with-flashlight-batteries-and- spring-water-and-cans-of-tuna-for-no-reason. Heidegger would call it whatnextness, but he is dead...
...will be posted as they arrive. On Friday night I dreamed I was in jail.? The fire guard, a few men plucked from our ranks to walk the floors in two-hour shifts, comes through every 15 minutes or so.? Every time I surfaced from sleep to this darting flashlight or that, I couldn't figure out whether I was enlisted or incarcerated...
...Flashlight and glow-in-the-dark tours added mystery to the shark and prehistoric mammal galleries...
When JonBenet woke, tore the duct tape from her mouth and began screaming, Smit theorizes that the killer panicked and struck her, perhaps with a heavy flashlight. With no time to retrieve his note from upstairs, the killer broke a window and fled. Later, police found a scuff mark from what appeared to be a boot on the nearby wall as well as unidentified boot and palm prints...