Lanoitarus - Slashdot User

Comment: Not so new really (Score 2, Insightful) 126

by Lanoitarus on Tuesday August 26 2008, @04:27PM (#24756021) Attached to: Amazon Rolls Out Release-Day Game Delivery

Didnt they already do this for book releases (harry potter methinks)? Not such a revolutionary offering in that case, although still a welcome one. Amazons shipping and fulfillment system continually impresses me. If they ever joined forces with newegg we might reach singularity.

Scientists Break Speed of Light

Submitted by PreacherTom on Monday March 05 2007, @06:25PM

PreacherTom writes "Scientists at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ are reporting that they have broken the speed of light. For the experiment, the researchers manipulated a vapor of laser-irradiated atoms, causing a pulse that shoots about 300 times faster than it would take the pulse to go the same distance in a vacuum, to the point where the pulse seemed to exit the chamber before even entering it. Apparently, Uncle Albert is still resting comfortably: relativity only states that an object with mass cannot travel faster than light. Still, the results are sufficient to merit publication in the prestigious journal, Nature."