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Old May 7th 07, 11:31 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Bob Harrington
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"William R Thompson" wrote in news:Wi%_h.11887
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"muff528" wrote:

"William R Thompson" wrote:


I made the time-dilation factor as about 0.999999999644 (square
root of 1 minus beta-squared), with Schirra spending about 1062000
seconds in space at orbital speed and beta equal to 8 km/sec over the
speed of light (close enough to 300,000 km/sec). Schirra would have
lost about 400 microseconds.


From his point of view didn't *we* lose the ~400ms ?


Yes, but it's all relative.


Really?

Must be on me mudder's side...