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Originally Posted by Zeraph
Yes, some of you are shak...Do you not know what a thought experiment is? This has nothing to do with surviving in space! Einstein imagined riding a beam of light. Guess what? He didn't actually think he could! Nor was his thought experiment actually about saddling a photon and riding it to the rodeo.
Peace, I'm done with this thread.
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Sorry you felt I wasn't suitably serious. I overlooked the "in the shade" part of your question, for the reasons stated by other posters - in LEO it's not posible to stay in the dark, as you come round the earth quickly.
That said, I think that the calculation given by filtherton is excellent.