LRRcast for Security Smile

[reptile]

If anyone cares about the riddle, I wanted to test the crews physics knowledge. Basically, when you move really fast, time works differently. If a vessel moves at 10 percent of the speed of light, 99 seconds to you is 100 seconds to anyone not in the vessel. At 50 percent of the speed of light, three seconds to you is four seconds to someone on the outside. Thus, if you travel with that speed, 7 days to anyone else will be 5 days and six hous to you.

Thus in both cases Billy rides into town on the day Friday and on a mount named Friday.

You're missing a square root in your calculations, I believe...the time dilation is a bit less than that. If you want to have a 4/3 time dilation ratio, you'd have to go...roughly 2/3 c. (That is, exactly sqrt(7)/4 c.)

Of course, the obvious answer is that there's a horse named "Friday on Friday".... ;)

[phlip]

As the guy who made both the Checkpoint generator and the abomination that is Graham-cat, I'm happy to have gotten two semi-shoutouts (as "someone") in the same LRRcast...

Also, re the Elements song, it was an NCIS episode, not CSI, that used the song as a plot point. Well, I guess it's possible CSI did it too, I don't watch that series so I can't say for sure, but still.

[Metcarfre]

[Gap Filler]

Hope I'm not the only one who, after two months, gets this weirdly amusing sense of time dislocation due to all the mildly outdated stuff being pushed like Duels, season five and the England trip.

It's also kind of amusing to contrast a nice, short, self contained discussion on the Canada Post situation with a massive rambling (though entirely fair) rag on Transformers 3.

[Graham]

Thank you phlip!
Sorry for not knowing your "real" name.

[Lord Chrusher]

In honour of being in an Art Deco New Zealand town (admittedly Napier rather than Ranfurly) I reread Korea.

[tamaness]

oh dang. I should really go back to my gas mask avatar.

[Vigafre]

I agree.