A spaceship is flying through space at 250,000,000 m/s toward the earth when it launches a probe at a speed of 100,000,000 m/s toward earth relative to the ship. Would you expect the people on earth to measure the probe’s speed to be 250,000,000 + 100,000,000= 350,000,000 m/s? Why?

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