yeah, i figured whoever was making the news ticker at the time had suffered from the usual game of telephone, and probably mistook 'speed of light' for 'speed of sound', because the other one seems a little bit more believable 
either that, or what we have here is a government conspiracy to cover up the secret development of the warp drive.
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"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)
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