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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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On 2/23/2011 9:17 PM, Tom wrote:
> I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. - Steven Wright
>

Based on my calculations, you just need to rid a spacecraft for 10 minutes
at a speed of 0.986*c for the hour to have passed.

Would have Saved you the cost of taking that course.

--Nasser
c: speed of light in empty space