funkdaddysmack

One of my friends showed this to me, the only one that is semi-realistic is the last one.

http://www.cardomain.com/id/fastr34

First of all, I know the skyling is unbelievably awesome and everything, but it is NOT going to run a 7.84 or whatever. 1360HP is really high, even for a SUPER high-end skyline...

Now, the civc. PUHHHHHHHHLEEEEASSEEEEEE!!!! A twin turbo on a 4cyl? Yea, I don't think so chump. 743hp? Yea sure... 183 mph? the fastest civic in the country is the land-speed 184mph civic.... For 743hp, I think you'd need a HUGE ******* intercooler, and I can't even see one behind that body kit...

That last civic is almost pretty realistic I guess with NOS. These people crack me up!

Identity_X

That guy is full of ****...........I don't know if he thinks that someone's going to believe his ***..........

Elchulo

sweet lookin rides but those stats get the

Bruce95fmla

you better pull your boots up guys , cause the BS is getting deep
Bruce

vkyolv

Yeah.....My Protege5 just one the worlds land speed record..I think they clocked my speed at just under the speed of light. All because I had some Vtec stickers and a whale wing.


what?......what? This isn't the "Fat chances/ In yer wet dreams" Forum? Opps......LOL

funkdaddysmack

I hope you weren't doing it at night, your headlights wouldn't be helping too much at just under the speed of light!

Shawn

You're no looser. How about this...

Because the equation E=mc^2, enery and mass are directly related to one another where c is a constant. So, at 10% the speed of light, an object is 0.5% greater in mass, at 90% c the object is more than twice the normal mass. As you approach the speed of light, the mass increases more quickly. So as you reach just below the speed of light your mass is near infinite and the energy required to keep you at that speed is near infinite as well. You never reach the speed of light because you would then have infinite mass with infinite amount of energy to get you there.

I got that info from "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. Pretty cool stuff.

Ok, now I'm a looser.

Hope everyone learned something today

Identity_X

and today's substitute Shawn will teach the class about the speed of light.......

Lesson 1:
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funkdaddysmack

I agree, this is one of the ONLY things I've learned in terms of physics in my "Science of Spaceflight" class this semester, which is a cool class by the way

So here's another question... If, by stephen hawkings words, that as you approate the speed of light, your mass becomes close to infinite? Does this mean that light has infinite mass?

Now, I agree with jesse here... It's Newton's first law that says an object is either at rest or moving in a straight line at a constant speed when there are no forces acting on it. (Not exact words, but what can ya do).

I can't believe that mr. stephen hawking is implying that you need to keep applying a force to keep the object moving near the speed of light. So much for his 230 IQ or whatever the hell it is!

Shawn

Ack, my bad. I suppose I could have also said:

"as you reach just below the speed of light your mass is near infinite and the energy required to have already gotten you that fast is near infinite as well."

That should work as well Of course we can assume one hell of a wind resistance at that speed. Actually, the friction with the atmosphere would burn any car to a crisp. Much like meteors entering earth's atmosphere except this would be a much larger scale. Unless in the vacumm of deep space there should always be some air resistance forces acting upon it.(this don't mean there are no forces acting on objects in deep space) Not to mention, an object of near infinite mass would produce massive amounts of gravity, destroying the earth and solar system. Very much like a black hole. So I suppose this would all end up in the vacumm of space, HAHA.

Ah well, never underestimate VTEC, right?

Shawn

Don't be dissin' my bro Stevey! I didn't write word for word from the book. That would be my bad. After this statement, he right away mentioned that light itself has no mass as it is a wave or something, blah blah. So that is why light waves can travel at that speed. Then later he talks about the duality of the wave and particle theory of light. That's in the quantum theory chapter, pretty weird stuff.
The problem with the theory of relativity is it sorta destroys itself once things start becoming infinite. I guess the laws of physics sorta don't work so well when dealing with infinite systems. That seems about right.

The dude seems pretty darn smart. Anything he says, he can probably back up with a massive proof or something. It's me that isn't as smart who can't provide the proof to all these theories.

I love this stuff. I wish I knew more people who I could chat about this stuff with.

funkdaddysmack

I agree, I find this stuff very interesting as well. I do, however, have a hard time grasping many of these concepts. Just the theory of relativity gives me a headache, almost. I need for these things to be described to me in a particular way, otherwise I won't understand it. It's heavy stuff!

I read an article on excite a long time ago (about a year) that some scientists broke the speed of light (or so they think) with a laser in a vaccum filed with cesium gas or something. It was pretty interesting, even if I didn't understand it, hehehe... I'll try and dig up the link for that, I thought it was pretty sweet!

funkdaddysmack

This wasn't exactly the link I was looking for, but something like it. Enjoy

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/0...d.of.light.ap/

Shawn

Good article! That is really cool. Seems like the cesium actually creates new light before the original pulse exits. I wonder how it makes the new light waves?

I've read about the black hole somewhere as well. Can't remember where. Since I spend most of my time watch Discovery, TLC or Space, I probably saw it one one of those stations.

This post has meandered off the original topic just a little bit, LOL.

mp4life

Stephen Hawkings is the friggin man. I totaly dig that stuff too. I havent gotten around to reading A Brief History of Time or Universe in a Nutshell yet, but i've read some lectures written by him online and its crazy stuff.

I dont know what i'm going to do w/o my AP Physics class next year, it's the only genuinely interesting class i've had.