Original artwork, not a still
Mostly Harmless · 1992
One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can’t. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker jokes that the speed of light is a hard limit that nothing can exceed, then adds a wry exception: bad news, which seems to travel faster than physics allows. It humorously suggests unwelcome tidings spread with astonishing speed.
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