a hero passes
"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...
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