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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: "speed of light" puzzle
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 19:22:28 EDT
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> I have a laser on a turntable in such a way that the beam falls on
> the moon during each revolution. 
...
> How can anything move at 10*C without violating relativity ?

Enough already!  It's time to launch a reductio ad adsurdum:

Let's talk about the sun.  It's big.  It's hot.  Now consider
Alpha Centauri.  It too is big and hot.  

But wait!  The SUBJECT OF CONVERSATION has moved more than 4 
lightyears in less than a second, a velocity in excess of 
100 million times C.  How can this be?!?!?!?!?

--JoSH