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Col. Klink
Professor
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The Speed of light isnt the Speed of light. People call it the Speed of light even though there are many other things that go that fast too. They only call it Speed of light because thats as fast as you can go. But its in Actuality the Fastest speed you can go.
Is it not possible they increased the Maximum speed without increasing the Speed of light?
Keeping in mind this is all silly since it would be impossible to muck around with the universe like that anyway.
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Rakija
Crustacean
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Originally posted by Action Jacktion: In one of the DVD commentaries, they say that signals sent before the speed of light was increased would continue traveling at the old speed, and wouldn't start going faster.
But that doesn't explain how the Nibblonians were able to get to Earth in the year 1999. Assumedly they know another way to travel. oh my gosh that's in the dvd extras? and to think that i almost discovered an original scientific phenomenon
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SamuelXDiamond
Rectum Favourist
Urban Legend
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Oh-ho! You put tachyons in my burrito, didn't you wife? That so explains why my lunch took three months to eat. Good one! Rakija puzzlingly said: the countless number of episodes where our futurama characters are freely entering the harsh vacuumn of space without gasping for oxygen or exploding due to a disbalance in he equilibrium of pressure Any examples? The only time I can think of is in "The Why of Fry", where Fry for some reason removes his helmet in the Infosphere. As it's never addressed in the episode (and no, I don't have the S4 DVDs yet), it's possible that there's an atmosphere generator in there (explains the gravity too). The hick on the moon in The Series Has Landed was just a throwaway joke.
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Rakija
Crustacean
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the titanic episode when the characters arein the escape pod and bender casually opens the door to their craft and no, there was no airlock
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Must have been, since the outer door opens upwards and out, while the inner doors open sidewards and in. Since there are two doors, an airlock is a logical conclusion.
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David A
Space Pope
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Originally posted by Speli: No no no. See, Einstein said that nothing could accelerate to the speed of light. He didn't say anything about things like tachyons which can actually never go slower than the speed of light. True. Of course, tachyons are theoretical at best. Assuming that they do exist, I have no idea how they could be detected. Originally posted by winna: All the questions of atmospheric conditions are few and far between, so you can say the escape pod, and possibly the moon farmer, but that's it. They did a pretty good job on that aspect of the show I agree. In both of those cases, it was done for the sake of a joke. The moon farmer began to suffocate and had to put his helmet back on. In real life, he would have died almost instantly, but that wouldn't have been as funny. The escape pod thing was a great example of subtle humor. If you don't think about it, it doesn't seem strange; but if you do think about it, that escape pod didn't have an airlock. How the hell did Bender get inside?
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