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I just had this strange thought pop up in my head... in a purely hypothetical situation, if one were to shine a hypothetically bright laser beam that could be seen for millions of miles straight out from the Earth and an observer was looking at this beam jet out from the planet from a great distance would that beam appear as a spiral (if the planet were already spinning at near light speeds)? Since the speed of light is fixed and the outer end of the beam would be travelling at a faster speed than the inner portion I would guess that the beam would start to curve into a spiral much like the stars around the galaxy. What do you guys think?