Recently some guys in my hobby group were talking about Carl Sagan, Hawking and Einstein with regard to the Theory of Relativity. As anyone familiar with the basics of relativity knows, one part of the theory states that as you travel at a faster and faster rate of speed your aging process slows down – while others not traveling at a high rate of speed continue to age normally. This means that if we send a ship to a nearby star system at a speed approaching the speed of light it could get there in a few years. But the families and friends of the crew who stayed on Earth would age at a considerably faster rate and perhaps be long dead by the time the crew returned home.
In related matters, I’d been thinking recently about how youthful Sammy Hagar looks at the venerable age of 62. Applying the theory of relativity to the Red Rocker himself, we can grasp how Hagar manages to still look so young. All we have to do is look to Hagar's tour de force, “I Can’t Drive 55,” in which he makes it plain that when he goes somewhere he goes there really fucking fast!
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