I watch way too much SciFi Channel and I heard it mentioned. I didn't know if it was slang or a real measure of distance.
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It's a term used for one kilometer or 0.62 miles. It's called a click because on a distance counter, every kilometer it clicks.
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THANK YOU!!  I agree with you.  There does seem to be a sort of typed slang that is difficult to decipher. I do not know the age group of these people that engage in it. If it is the youth of today, they are keeping the adults out of their answer pool. It functions as an electronic barrier.\n\nIt is just another symptom of the newest "gap" those who have been raised on or (worse) by a computer and those who have been raised by the traditional family. The generational gap is fading, into this newest gap, don't you think?
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Good question.  If you mean "mach-2" which is pronounced like "moc2", then is is a measurement of velocity which is equal to twice the speed of sound.\n\nIf that is not correct, then perhaps it is a way of keeping track of ones moccasins... "I wear moc1 on my left foot, and moc2 on my right."
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well yeah... \nwell we dont have any definitive start or end point, so it's only relative to itself meaning that you can only measure a change in time, not how much of it you actually have. \nyour actual question is a little ambiguous, if this isnt what you meant, you can add some to the question,  are you looking for an explanation of how high velocities distort time or something, because I can explain that if you would like, just add it onto the question or make a new one or something.
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The first part is a bit difficult to translate, as it is not really clear Dutch, but there we go (I think the second sentence is an enumeration):\n\nI don´t know about what I can talk. Well, the series, connections with Webster´s family, what that family does or what kind of projects they have, his episode in CSI: Miami, episode 24.\n\nHe didn´t send much.\n\nI would like to call, you know, but it is quite exciting, isn´t it, and if I call, it would have to be at night, because of the time differences and so on, but then still.\n\nI hope this helps, it´s the best I can do. I'm sure it means something to you :-)
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I'm not sure what you are asking, but motion is measured with reference to something else.  \n\nFor example, when we say the car is traveling 30 mph down the road, we mean it is traveling that speed in reference to the road.  It would be equally correct to say that car is traveling 60 mph towards you if you were in a car traveling at 30 mph towards it.  In your reference frame, it would be traveling at 60 mph.
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it means that half of the people there, he would like to know more about. the other half can get the hell out of his party!! lol. i can't put it into math. sorry dude. i'm not that alert today. it confused me when i first heard that on the tv.
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Ogliarchy better! you know now!\n\n<b>Antenna snaps off\nCyclone kills television\nInteraction thrives </b>\n\nGood question!   old fashion html Haiku make it stronger!
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i think - what ?%?^@^@$%R does that mean... wouldve searched for it online but hey, got plenty more questions to answer before the net gets jammed and slows down and all..\n\ncheers..
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A great intergalactic convergance?  A great cosmological simultaneity?\n\nIve noticed that I sometimes track people for a while but then diverge later.  Must be common furrows in the twisted convolutions of our collective brains.  Like passing someone slowly on the freeway.
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Dude... what the hell are you talking about? Isn't 'subspace' something they have on Star Trek?
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Every measurement has an uncertainty.  Measuring distance with a laser for example is affected by the wavelength of the laser which can be changed by air density.   Temperature affects the length of all materials.  Even outer space has distortions due to gravity of the stars and planets, gas clouds etc.
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"be a finite amount of matter, but be infinitely small.. which would not exist..."\n\nThat's actually exactly what they are saying...\n\nAs to time warping...  The mistake there is believe that Time is a dimension of it's own rather than the phenomenia caused by change in spacial dimensions and human observations being linear...
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It would probably help if you posted the definitions.\n\nIn general, though the "scale factor" is usually the the ratio of the size of a copy of an object to the actual size of the object.\n\nAs an example, if you look at a map, they usually say somewhere something like "1 inch = 10 miles".  So if you are trying to find the distance between two cities, and they are 3.5 inches apart on the map, the cities are 3.5 inches x 10 miles/inch = 35 miles apart.\n\nSince the scale factor IS a ratio, I don't understand the second question.
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Probably a local word for termites or some other wood burrowing insect.  \nThe only other meaning was mentioned by the previous answer, and that is an Austailian term, Sawbees, Brand of hand-shears used for shearing sheep
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I used to watch it but I don't think it got the ratings ABC was looking for. And Sci-Fi may be owned by ABC and if it is they probably played it for a tease for King's new movie that played last week Desperation.
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From my reading of it, it would be more of a scientific seance. Though science itself would call remote sensing a "pseudo science" meaning that it's not real. Some people claim that there have been government think tanks with those who would use remote sensing to spy on other governments. From what I remember, the way it would work is the subject is given the name of a place and maybe the coordinates of it, then they would have to concentrate hard on this. When they are done, they draw pictures of what they saw. Supposedly the pictures will predict what is really in the place of the coordinates.