Pentcho Valev wrote:
Experimentalists send a signal, detect its arrival and determine its
speed: the speed is (e.g. four times) greater than 300000 km/s. At
least that is what the public should know:

http://i-newswire.com/pr43033.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2796


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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have recorded a massive
star moving at more than 2.6 million kilometres per hour. Stars are not
born with such large velocities. Its position in the sky leads to the
suggestion that the star was kicked out from the Large Magellanic
Cloud.

You can access ESO Press Release 27/05 at
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-re.../pr-27-05.html, while a
longer web story is also available at
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-re...-27-05_p2.html

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thread? Why don't we really know what we see? How can a juggling act
explain mathematics?

These are but a few of the on-stage activities that will be shown at
the EIROforum Science on Stage Festival, to be held from 21 to 25
November at CERN in Geneva (Switzerland). With support from the
European Commission, this international festival brings together around
500 science educators from 29 European countries to show how
fascinating and entertaining science can be.

Read more about this unique event in ESO Press Release 28/05 at
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-re.../pr-28-05.html


With kind regards,

The ESO Public Affairs Dept.

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Sue... wrote:
Pentcho Valev wrote:
Experimentalists send a signal, detect its arrival and determine its
speed: the speed is (e.g. four times) greater than 300000 km/s. At
least that is what the public should know:

http://i-newswire.com/pr43033.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2796


snip legalezze sleeze


Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have recorded a massive
star moving at more than 2.6 million kilometres per hour.

Um, do I need to point out that this is *not* superluminal?