Interesting fact of the day:

One interesting consequence of the speed of light limitation is that it can actually cause things to appear to move much faster than the speed of light (near instantaneously) while still actually moving no faster than light.

Consider a gun 1 light year away firing a bullet at you very close to the speed of light 0.9999 C or whatever. At the moment the gun is fired it would take one year for the light of the firing even to reach your eyes, so by the time you see the gun firing it has already been a year. At the same time the bullet takes just slightly more than a year (to pick an arbitrary number say 10 minutes longer than a year) to reach you. So after you see the gun fire the bullet would reach you just 10 minutes later. This also means it would appear that the bullet traversed a one light year distance in only 10 minutes. Of course in reality this is impossible and it did not, but it would look that way.