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I have a dollar store laser pointer than can also travel at the speed of light
Pssh, I have a 30 year old flashlight that can do the same.
Wait until you learn how old my sun is
Your sun’s light can travel at the speed of light?
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Claims to travel at the speed of light.
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Still takes eight minutes to get here.
Sus.
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I have a kerosene lantern that does the same.
Dang, that’s rad!
That’s impressive. Having a non-photon mass traveling at the speed of light would break our understanding of physics. Get that laser pointer to the lab ASAP
At the speeds it’s moving I imagine we already lost it.
Wait, how do you make the laser pointer travel at the speed of light? I assume it has some mass.
The army trembling when I bring a mirror
NOW YOU FUCKED UP!
SUPER.
HOT.
World around
Around the world
World around
Around the world
I have wifi router that emits microwaves at the speed of light.
Pffft, I have a microwave that emits microwaves at microwave speeds to microwave things.
This guy microwaves
How many hot pockets do you need?!
At least 3.50
I would have said somewhere between 2.4 and 6.
I have lightning fast wifi at home
Elections are slower than light waves so technically you have a slow, shitty router, but at least it can electrocute people so that’s something.
This is why I support the Empire. In a dictatorship there’s no waiting for elections.
But electrocutions are something dif… Never mind.
Impressive. The future is awesome! Can we maybe apply this to regular light too? Maybe even green light? Or purple? I’m so excited.
When you go from green to purple, the light gets more excited too.
insert sensitive chuckle-magazine-guy-meme
sensitive chuckle
Chuckling whilst cold-sore?
Well, for the green light we already have FTL tech, it was invented and perfected by the car behind you as you are waiting for the light to turn green.
Ohhhh right. My bad Sorry…
Is purple actually a light color?
No, but violet is, and that’s pretty close.
According to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, the same people also write about politics, environment and society.
That sounds neat, I won’t look it up
Yeah, they probably have it all figured out.
It was coined by Michael Crichton, you know, the man behind the Jurassic Park. Big Dino man can’t lie. And if they lie they are instantly forgiven.
He was a anthropogenic climate change denier. I guess you can forgive him instantly but I don’t.
I missed that thing in his biography and that link looks like an excessive explanation to what you’ve mentioned: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/michael-crichton-and-global-warming/
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I’d be more impressed if they didn’t.
Is there a way to not?
The medium that the laser goes through could slow it down, but it would still be insanely fast.
It would also still be the speed of light. Always is, unless you specify ‘in a vacuum’ every time.
Adding to the fun - The light is still going the same speed within the medium, but it’s bumping into more things. Those collisions divert the light, lengthening the distance it travels through something like 1 cm of glass vs 1 cm in a vacuum. It changes the time it takes to travel through glass rather than the speed at which the light is moving.
At least that’s what I remember from a YouTube video.
Yes that’s it! Thanks for the link!!
The real fun starts when things move faster than the speed of light, that’s when you get Cherenkov radiation!
Sorta, but it’s a pain in the ass.
Just dont.
Wait until they see the speaker that makes noise at the speed of sound.
Honestly I’d be more impressed by the Star Wars kind that go about thirty miles an hour.
Those aren’t lasers. They’re contained plasma projectiles.
Meanwhile, this headline goes at the speed of clicks:-).
What has science done?!
Has Science Really Gone Too Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
Is this a reference to something or just aneurism posting?
It was the OG Aneurism Posting
Aaaah i see. Thanks!
Water is wet
Easy there, that’s quite a can of worms you’re tipping over.
Indeed, many would argue that water can’t be wet, only things that water gets on/in.
Have you not seen those Blaster from the galaxy far far away that fire laser half the speed of sound?
Those are changed plasma bolts
I can run at the speed of running, where is my headline?
I think they’ve changed the headline, but not the embedded video:
I mean, the video one makes a little more sense, as it’s about destroying things at the speed of light rather than just firing the laser.
I can run at the speed of fat
