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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by JeanCroix on Tuesday May 05 2015, @01:13PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Tuesday May 05 2015, @01:13PM (#179080)
    There is no absolute frame of reference, so I postulate one in which I'm stationary, and all other objects are in motion. I guess that would be a zero for yearly travel.
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  • (Score: 2) by TK on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:35PM

    by TK (2760) on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:35PM (#179109)

    Relatively relevant XKCD [xkcd.com].

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    The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:52PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:52PM (#179537) Homepage
    No good - we want an inertial frame of reference, not an accelerating one.
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    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

    • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:00PM

      by JeanCroix (573) on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:00PM (#179542)
      Come on now, do you think it's easy accelerating the entire universe by taking a right turn? Cut me some slack.