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[Dragon]

  I see what you did there.

Were you able to see it right away or did you have to wait for the light to get to your eyes?

I think that if you were deep in the ocean in the light pressure zone, you could have measured the time it took with the ruler and stop watch offered earlier.

[kvuo75]

[dedalos]

As to travelling at the speed of light, the problem is not in reaching the speed. Technology will eventually catch up with anything physics based. The real question will be to dealing with what happens when the light you see reflecting off your body normally is unable to reach your body and bounce into your own eye.

Wouldn't that cause a "Light Boom"?

[mechanic]

  hmmm I have no idea. Perhaps some sort of optical explosion would happen? I can't remember, it has been years since I went above light speed.

[druski85]

How have I never seen this picture? 

[IrishOne]

it has been years since I went above light speed.

   here i thought i was the only one!

[Roadblck]

Were you able to see it right away or did you have to wait for the light to get to your eyes?

I think that if you were deep in the ocean in the light pressure zone, you could have measured the time it took with the ruler and stop watch offered earlier.

I can't think of anything funny to write back.

[mensa180]

Being serious here, that radiation glow you see in nuclear power plants is from particles traveling faster than the speed of light (in the medium water).

[L0nGb0w]

The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, so objects on the outer edges will never be visible to us, unless it slows down or *gasp* starts to collapse 

[LLogann]

Awww man, you were doing great till this one.......  That is the speed of light in empty space, or dare I say (and may have already - a vacuum). Light passes through our atmosphere at different rates depending on air density.  Remember, sometimes light acts as a wave, and sometimes it acts like matter.

186,000 miles per second.   no faster, no slower.  that is light speed.  ok, 186,282 and some change, but u get the picture 

[canacka]

Awww man, you were doing great till this one.......  That is the speed of light in empty space, or dare I say (and may have already - a vacuum). Light passes through our atmosphere at different rates depending on air density.  Remember, sometimes light acts as a wave, and sometimes it acts like matter.

Which is why it looks like water on a hot dry road from a distance.