Far better to use a broadcast signal, which we can target at a specific star, and which moves at the speed of light.

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It isn't quite ready for a high-speed chase in the forest a la Star Wars, but it still looks pretty cool.

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The Olympic flame was jointly lit by four Canadian sports heroes - all-time hockey great Wayne Gretzky, skier Nancy Greene, speed skater Catriona Le May Doan and basketball All-Star Steve Nash after being carried into the arena by paralympian Rick Hansen.

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One idea is that "star quakes" on the surfaces of pulsars affect the change in rotation speed, or that the glitch is caused by interactions between the stars' fluid interiors and crusts.

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The Rocket Racing League plans to pair off high-powered rocket planes in a high-speed, 3-D chase through the skies--think NASCAR meets Star Wars.

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Knowing that the supernova is 15, 000 years old, and logging the distance the neutron star had traveled in that time, Tomsick and his team were able to calculate its speed.

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But, although it resembles the "Millennium Falcon" from "Star Wars", the "Orsos Island" is unable to reach tropical destinations at lightening speed, as its diminutive diesel engines are equipped for short journeys only.

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The Death Star project concept falls in a practical sense at the first hurdle as nobody knows how to build a near light speed propulsion engine for it.

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