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    Graduate How Can Astrophysicists Be Rescued from Mars Using Special Relativity?

    I'm a Biochemistry undergrad, so I don't feel bad for not understanding it. I thought I was really smart for waking up this morning and realizing, "Woah, I wonder..." The way you described actually makes a lot more logical sense than what I was trying to describe in my own question. Glad you...
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    Graduate How Can Astrophysicists Be Rescued from Mars Using Special Relativity?

    Now it all makes sense. Thank you for correcting my error. Dang, so much for all that math. Ah well, I would rather be wrong and learn from it. Thank you for correcting this mistake of mine =)
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    Graduate How Can Astrophysicists Be Rescued from Mars Using Special Relativity?

    Now I am equally confused. Let me just post my math, b/c it's certainly possible that I made a mistake. According to my calculations, if you were traveling at 299792458 m/s, then you would arrive at Mars in 1000 seconds, space-cruiser time, or 16.6666 minutes, (the minimum time to reach Mars...
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    Graduate How Can Astrophysicists Be Rescued from Mars Using Special Relativity?

    I was really bored one day, and I decided to make up this question for fun. It's actually pretty easy and I was able to solve it using nothing but high school algebra, but what makes the question interesting is just the conceptual aspect of the question: A team of astrophysicists are stranded...