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From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
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Subject: Re: Re: This is serious!
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> This area of research brought to mind another potential problem.  Let's say
> that NASA comes up with a spacecraft which can travel at or near the speed of
> light.  Do its on-board computers get slower and slower as the magical velocity

Reminds me of some of my weirder brainstorms, like a substance made of a
crystal of charged black holes (charge opposed gravity). Won't work, of
course, unless they're black-hole monopoles (:->). But boy talk about a rigid
structure! Also you could dope it with bigger holes & make a hell of an optical
computer... run real slo, though, because of the time dilation near the event
horizons.