I hear what you are saying but I think his premise is unsound.
I can point a laser due north (into the stars) and then switch to point due south (into the stars.)
That doesn't mean anything can cross the universe (known or unknown) in a split second (except maybe Q)


I often thought about this as a kid. If I point a flashlight into the stars, will some entity, out there in space see my bean of light? I concluded that no they couldn't. Besides the fact that the light would get filtered out by space particles long before it reached anywhere, The light moves too slow. I can point my flashlight now and hold it there for one minute. Then that beam would have to travel for more years (Hundreds? - Thousands)? than even I could imagine until it hit something.

Did the light beam continue to travel through space after the minute I shut off the light or does it keep traveling? A blip of light traveling through space. If the light we see from stars could be light from stars that burned out years ago, then I suppose (if it was ever strong enough not to be filtered out) that blip would be possible.

So the fact that I can point and shoot a continuous blip of light in one direction in space, and then wave it around to another section of space, doesn't mean that blip is moving from one planet to the next (or even one galaxy to the next.)

This idea most likely asks more questions than it answers and I'm sure we could talk forever but I just think light defies the basic standards of measure we tend to use on it.

>> ^Bhruic:

Well, for the pixels thing, he specifically says "pixels", not "light emitting from pixels". The pixels themselves never move. The light the pixels emit (if any) does move, of course, to get from the pixel to your eye. But that's a separate issue.
He's also not saying that flicking your wrist speeds up light. The premise of this video isn't that light can travel faster than what we know as "the speed of light", just that "something" can travel faster - in this case, the image of a laser. The speed at which the image is traveling across the surface of the moon would indeed be faster than the speed of light. Which is fine, because as he points out, images don't have mass.

I liked Due South when I was smaller.

Interesting note about the sun setting at the same time everywhere, it also rises and sets in the same exact position. That is, it rises up into the air from the horizon, then at noon it makes a u-turn and begins to set in the same direction it rose from. Then the moon comes up again from the same spot and repeats things.

After noticing this I realized it's because all the larger objects like buildings, trees, mountains, etc. cast static shadows onto the ground. If the light source in the sky moved to the other side of the sky it would look completely off (though note, as of a recent patch you can set all shadows to dynamic ones).

I do love though that they have a 24 hour day / night cycle.

Oh and that edge of the world isn't from Outland. If you go to Tanaris and use water walking due south from the zone (to clear the fatigue water) you can reach a small chain of islands (used to have a bottle on the island and when you clicked on it it read, 'How did you get here?'. Now it's easy to get there). If you go further south from there, you'll hit 'the edge of the world'. There's probably other spots like that too.

...not that I used to play a lot or anything.....