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lightspeed

alt. 1 The speed of light. 2 (context countable English) A rate of speed. n. 1 The speed of light. 2 (context countable English) A rate of speed.

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Lightspeed
  1. Redirect Speed of light
Lightspeed (Transformers)

Lightspeed is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Some English dubs of the Transformers: Victory animated series use the name Lightspeed for the character of Braver.

Lightspeed (video game)

Lightspeed is a video game developed and released by MicroProse in 1990. It features a space flight simulator game and action game elements with an emphasis on strategy and exploration. The box describes the title as an "Interstellar Action and Adventure" game. The game features space exploration, trade, combat and diplomacy in the same vein as 4X s such as Master of Orion. Lightspeed, unlike the popular series of turn-based strategy games, plays out in real-time.

A sequel, entitled Hyperspeed, was released by MicroProse in 1991. It was nearly identical to Lightspeed, except that it included two additional star clusters for veterans of the first game.

Lightspeed (disambiguation)

The speed of light is a physical constant.

Lightspeed may also refer to:

Lightspeed (film)

Lightspeed, (also known as Stan Lee's Lightspeed) is a 2006 superhero film directed by Don E. FauntLeRoy, starring Jason Connery in the title role. It also stars Nicole Eggert, Daniel Goddard, and Lee Majors. It was released direct-to-video on .

Lightspeed (album)

Lightspeed is the debut album by the Dutch rock band Destine. It was released February 1, 2010, and January 29, 2010 on iTunes. Prior to the release of the album, seven of the twelve songs were released on the singles " Stars" and " In Your Arms".

Lightspeed (magazine)

Lightspeed is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine edited and published by John Joseph Adams. The first issue was published in June 2010 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since. The magazine currently publishes four original stories and four reprints in every issue, in addition to interviews with the authors and other nonfiction. All of the content published in each issue is available for purchase as an ebook and for free on the magazine's website. Lightspeed also makes selected stories available as a free podcast, produced by Audie Award-winning editor Stefan Rudnicki.

Lightspeed (company)

Lightspeed is a point-of-sale software provider based in Montreal, Canada. Dax Dasilva founded the company in 2005 and is the CEO.

Lightspeed (Dev song)

"Lightspeed" is a song by Dev from her first studio album, The Night the Sun Came Up. It was released with a music video on November 22, 2011 as a promotional single. It's primarily a futuristic hip-hop song with the presence of panflute sound, articulating basses and a coughing effect after the chorus.

Usage examples of "lightspeed".

What they have now are modules of the life support and living quarters, some modules with carefully selected scientific equipment from the labs, a vast corpus of knowledge downloaded to an assortment of still-functioning computers, a cargo hold stuffed with Mingulayan manufactures, and the lightspeed drive.

Greek gift or Trojan Horse -- of the lightspeed drive and antigravity craft.

It occurs to Matt that the anomalous experience of travel by lightspeed ship, before the travelers had had any grasp of the notion that light had a speed at all, was probably responsible for the persistence of this entire ludicrously complicated cosmology.

Solar System had turned out to be for -- or had been overridden to produce -- a lightspeed leap of unknown but vast length.

Quick zoom in to scenes of conflict -- lightspeed ships exchanging laser fire, a gutted asteroid habitat swarming with monkey-spiders, a ruined monkey-spider city, a saur manufacturing plant forest in flames.

Matt peers at it, recognizing the numbers along its pathways as instruction sets for lightspeed jumps.

At the same time, these powers gave the instructions for building the engines of the lightspeed ships and the gravity skiffs to the human beings who then lived on Earth.

The pressure of a fingertip against a touch screen was sufficient to conjure information on individual worlds, stars, or lightspeed routes.

In place of the purplish-white chaos of lightspeed, local space was fracturing into elongating lines of light.

But it was a star: a star that had been accelerated to near lightspeed and then launched through hyperspace.

Evidently they have been unable or unwilling to persuade or coerce the other species into sharing antigravity and lightspeed tech.

Over the New Babylon subcontinent it had appeared as a fleet above a small town in the Massif, making lightspeed jumps back and forth between five separate points so quickly that it was seen as five separate ships.

The first-wave colonists remained in contact with Earth, in a one-way conversation with a twenty-year lightspeed transmission lag.

The first message from the incoming flotilla had bridged the lightspeed distance.

She fell silent again, and sat moodily running the lightspeed comm bands for another half-hour without result.