> >To me, the idea of slowing the speed of light is just as intriguing as freezing time. It would be really freaky if light traveled at about the same speed as sound. Looking at an object several hundred yards away, you would know that the object could have changed its appearance or location a couple of seconds before the image hit your eyes. It would make driving a horribly tricky undertaking, and of course all the world's snipers would be right out of business. :-)
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> > Iss "watches Star Trek for the characterization much more than for the science" achar
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> Well, Picard on Star Trek developed what is known as the Picard maneuver (I don't know how to spell that and I don't care). The Ferengi had light-based sensors, and he used them against them. I don't remember the details, but it was pretty cool. It's in the Star Trek Encyclopedia.

He used warp, which is faster than light travel, to get in closer to the Ferengi ship and start fireing. The Ferengi's didn't even see the ship move untill the last second, when it was suddenly in two places at one (It stopped moveing at light speed before it fired and was closer to the Ferengi ship) so the image of the ship at it's original point was still arriving at the Ferengi vessel while the image of the ship at it's new position was, so suddenly there were two ships.

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p.s. the Picard Maneuver also reffers to tugging your shirt down. Watch the show, in the early seasons only Picard did this on a regular basses, soon Riker started to do it.