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  • Even traveling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here.  (source)
    speed of light = about 186,000 miles per second (or 300,000,000 meters per second) in a vacuum
  • What are your thoughts on the feasibility of flying at the speed of light?†  (source)
  • All those magnificent ships can reach one-tenth the speed of light.†  (source)
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  • So if you were traveling at the speed of light (the fastest speed attainable by any spacecraft inside the OASIS), you could get from one side of a sector to the other in exactly ten hours.†  (source)
  • It means if we were traveling at the speed of light, it would take us forty-five minutes to get from Earth to Jupiter, so the Jupiter we're seeing right now is actually Jupiter forty-five minutes ago.†  (source)
  • But that's almost the speed of light," one of the professors exclaimed.†  (source)
  • For your information, he hasn't asked me one single thing about Harry, not one —" Ron changed tack at the speed of light.†  (source)
  • Then they worked out that the universe was expanding, that the stars were all rushing away from one another after the Big Bang, and the further the stars were away from us the faster they were moving, some of them nearly as fast as the speed of light, which was why their light never reached us.†  (source)
  • I'm falling faster than the speed of light into the black hole that opened with the Arrival and then devoured everything in its path.†  (source)
  • A lightning that cannot strike twice, our lesson learned in the hateful speed of light.†  (source)
  • I'm running the line back to Seth at the speed of light, Leah promised.†  (source)
  • In binary form, a virus can bounce around the universe at the speed of light.†  (source)
  • The signal travels at the speed of light, surely.†  (source)
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