Comment Obligatory Futurama (Score 2) 54
We carry a harpoon
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.
A former coworker once vandalized the list of fatal bear attacks (he added a friend of his to the list). Wikipedia has since been corrected, but not before the name Nick Ruberto (who is alive and well) appeared on several other lists of bear attacks (on some lists he appears as Nick Roberto, but all other details are the same.): https://www.google.com/?gws_rd...
According to my ex-coworker, he received a one-year edit ban once discovered, which was increased to a lifetime edit ban when he appealed.
OTOH, this is an interesting idea, and it may have greater implications in cosmology.
It is the average speed of the light over very large distances that needs a correction, to account for the portions of travel where the light, well, is not light. The photons still move at 2.99x10^8m/s. It's the electrons and positrons that move slower.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan