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Djank
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Djank says:
what happens when you put your head lights on?
23/02/2007
NSW
WiiMaster
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WiiMaster says:
you race the beams of light
23/02/2007
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chambalam
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chambalam says:
ok dude, nothing happens, love the enthusiasm, but no need to make a thread about it, alos dont know why ud need headlights at that speed
23/02/2007
Ballina, NSW. 1 hour south of queensland on coast
desi
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desi says:
It would follow that nothing abnormal would happen, because the speed at which you are travelling would be added to the speed of the light beam. Really, Light Speed times two, just as if you fired a bullet forward from inside a train, the bullet would travel at its normal speed plus the speed of the train. However, this conflicts with Einstein's idea that nothing can travel faster than light.
23/02/2007
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leeman34
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leeman34 says:
they would still work as your going the same speed as them
but they woul be projected in front of you if you had them on before you took off
23/02/2007
Soul Calibur Legends
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cmpa1970
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cmpa1970 says:
they race with you. just like the lights on a car or the sound from the car stereo. once the leave the influence of the vehicle they slow down to their normal rate....
23/02/2007
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Sydney, NSW
Djank
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Djank says:
yeah, of course it's an obvious answer, but someone asked me that the other day and it's a good one.

mywiisites said:
but they woul be projected in front of you if you had them on before you took off



i like your thinking there
23/02/2007
NSW
chambalam
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chambalam says:
Same thing happens with supersonice jets and the sound they make
23/02/2007
Ballina, NSW. 1 hour south of queensland on coast
XTremeEd
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XTremeEd says:
I'd assume a sonic boom style thing happening, like the supersonic jets, like what chumbalam said
23/02/2007
chambalam
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chambalam says:
yeh but its different, sound is the vibration of air particles and light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, light can travel through space, it does not need a medium unlike sound which needs particles to vibrate, get it?
23/02/2007
Ballina, NSW. 1 hour south of queensland on coast
timmmah
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timmmah says:
A question like that is just like answering what would happen if an unstoppable object hit an unmovable one.
23/02/2007
Melbourne
XTremeEd
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XTremeEd says:
i suppose so, however we're talking about a matter-based spaceship that theoretically cannot go at the speed of light, so whatever is travelling that speed surely cant be made of matter, and so must be similar to light?
23/02/2007
nbo
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nbo says:
this is just ****ing crap
just crap i dont give a crap if i have lights on who gives a flying ****

edit
sorry im just in a heaps bad mood
23/02/2007
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chambalam
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chambalam says:

nbo said: this is just ****ing crap
just crap i dont give a crap if i have lights on who gives a flying ****

edit
sorry im just in a heaps bad mood



i second that thought, sure put it all in the same thread!

edit
sorry im just in a heaps bad mood too
23/02/2007
Ballina, NSW. 1 hour south of queensland on coast
curmi
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curmi says:
The question is very interesting because it doesn't follow the everyday logic you would expect.

Light always travel at the same speed relative to an observer. So as you approach the speed of light, you would still see light coming out of your headlights at the speed of light.

Someone else watching you from a distance would see the light travelling at the speed of light, and you travelling slower (you aren't travelling at the speed of light, just getting closer).

You couldn't actually be travelling AT the speed of light however, because you would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate your originally still spaceship to that speed.

There is all sorts of other stuff that Einstein's theory of relativity predicts - including time dilation effects (you could leave your twin brother behind, then come back later and find he is older than you). Do a google search - it really is interesting stuff.
24/02/2007
Melbourne, Victoria
leeman34
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leeman34 says:
I agree with curmi but if we all believed what the old professors said we’ll still think the world is flat but time travel offers so many paradoxes(if that’s even right) that for our time line no chance
24/02/2007
Soul Calibur Legends
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larz
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larz says:

Djank said: what happens when you put your head lights on?



You can finally see the iceberg.
24/02/2007
Paris
leeman34
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leeman34 says:
at least you can see what you hit ?
24/02/2007
Soul Calibur Legends
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Azza123
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Azza123 says:
If you was going at the speed of light and hit an iceberg I would think you would tear stright through it and you boat with holes in it...Then Titanic will happen while going at the speed of light

THE END!!!

With the headlight thing well you would probably go blind if you was just watching it.... but I think the headlights would smash or break at that speed...
24/02/2007
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
''Blades Will Bleed''
Foleyben
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Foleyben says:
ships dont have headlights?
24/02/2007
Ballarat, Victoria
larz
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larz says:

Foleyben said: ships dont have headlights?



by ship he meant a Toyota Camry
24/02/2007
Paris
Djank
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Djank says:  

larz said:

Foleyben said: ships dont have headlights?



by ship he meant a Toyota Camry



rofl, you crack me up every day larz
24/02/2007
NSW
JPDyno
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JPDyno says:
you'd run people over at night before they see your headlights.
B-)
24/02/2007
Geelong, Victoria
 
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