message 0588

• On Cherryh's 'Inside Outer Space' article (topic: the implications of space travel for civilizations, esp. regarding warfare)

>From: Jo Jaquinta <jaymin@maths.tcd.ie>
>Subject: Cherryhlist/99.9% of C
>Date: Fri, 1 Oct 93 8:51:45 BST

	Didn't Suzanne Vega have a song about this. I think it went
something like:

	Ninety nine point nine percent of C
	Mass increases towards infinity
	It feels like normal but it isn't quite
	Could make you afraid to take a space flight
	You seem to me like a man on the verge of shrinking

	Ninety nine point nine percent of C
	Length decreases exponentially
	Time dilates likewase as you converge on C
	Two point nine eight by ten thousand KPS
	Ninety nine point nine percent of C

	...

	:-)

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