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Subject:Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Fri, 17 May 2002 20:11:55 +1200
>Is it arbitrary? It is the distance traveled by light in a
>vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second so that it is always a
>repeatable distace. Then again I dont know the reason why
>they picked 1/299,792,458 of a second so I guess that is
>arbitrary.

In fact gravity bends light rays. This implies that it will also
affect lightspeed...