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Last night I saw the new movie, "Passengers." The story line has a large spacecraft carrying over 5,000 passengers, in suspended animation, crossing interstellar space at nine-tenths of the speed of light to a new planet to colonize. The trip is going to take 120 years. The crew is also in suspended animation and the ship is flying itself automatically and, as in the old joke goes, "nothing can go wrong, can go wrong, an go wrong." Something does go wrong and two of the passengers find themselves awake and the ship is not due at the new planet for another 90 years. The two passengers have to face the fact that they will live out their entire lives with just the two of them in that ship and they will never see that new planet.  The story goes on from there and I am not going to ruin it for you, it's a good movie, go see it.

A long time ago my daughter said I was a "nav-nerd" and this morning I realized that she was right. I had been deaming about that movie and I woke up and said "they didn't allow for the Lonentz' tranformation!" I can't believe that came to me in my dream.

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