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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: explanation of "speed of light" puzzle
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 11:41:58 EDT
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> 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

That's easy: one of them must have negative mass.  Sure enough, Alpha
Centauri is in the southern hemisphere and therefore negative!
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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