[PLUG-TALK] Russian doll time delay encryption (coast to coast ping time)

[Dale Snell]

On Thu, 21 May 2015 09:55:30 -0700 (PDT), in message
alpine.LNX.2.11.1505210954000.10319 at localhost, Rich Shepard wrote:

>    One quibble: I don't think that 30 lightyears == 30 Earth years;
> it only seems that way sometimes.
> 
> Rich

Actually it is, in a sense.  One light-year is the distance light
travels in one (Earth) year in a vacuum, so a radio signal would take
30 years to travel 30 light-years.

--Dale

-- 
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