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Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

I can whistle at the speed of sound

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    I have a dollar store laser pointer than can also travel at the speed of light

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      Pssh, I have a 30 year old flashlight that can do the same.

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        Wait until you learn how old my sun is

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          Your sun’s light can travel at the speed of light?

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            • Claims to travel at the speed of light.

            • Still takes eight minutes to get here.

            Sus.

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        I have a kerosene lantern that does the same.

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          Dang, that’s rad!

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      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

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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        At the speeds it’s moving I imagine we already lost it.

    • prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one
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      Wait, how do you make the laser pointer travel at the speed of light? I assume it has some mass.

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    The army trembling when I bring a mirror

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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      NOW YOU FUCKED UP!

      • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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        SUPER.

        HOT.

      • Anticorp@lemmy.world
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        World around

        Around the world

        World around

        Around the world

  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
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    I have wifi router that emits microwaves at the speed of light.

    • Muscar@discuss.online
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      Pffft, I have a microwave that emits microwaves at microwave speeds to microwave things.

      • dch82@lemmy.zip
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        This guy microwaves

    • meliaesc@lemmynsfw.com
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      How many hot pockets do you need?!

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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        At least 3.50

        • meliaesc@lemmynsfw.com
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          I would have said somewhere between 2.4 and 6.

    • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works
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      I have lightning fast wifi at home

      • Etterra@lemmy.world
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        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.

        • Comment105@lemm.ee
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          This is why I support the Empire. In a dictatorship there’s no waiting for elections.

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            But electrocutions are something dif… Never mind.

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    Impressive. The future is awesome! Can we maybe apply this to regular light too? Maybe even green light? Or purple? I’m so excited.

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      When you go from green to purple, the light gets more excited too.

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        insert sensitive chuckle-magazine-guy-meme

        • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works
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          deleted by creator

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      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.

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        Ohhhh right. My bad Sorry…

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      Is purple actually a light color?

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        No, but violet is, and that’s pretty close.

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    According to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, the same people also write about politics, environment and society.

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      That sounds neat, I won’t look it up

      • Morphit @feddit.uk
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        Yeah, they probably have it all figured out.

      • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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        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.

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          He was a anthropogenic climate change denier. I guess you can forgive him instantly but I don’t.

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            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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    deleted by creator

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      I’d be more impressed if they didn’t.

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      Is there a way to not?

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        The medium that the laser goes through could slow it down, but it would still be insanely fast.

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          It would also still be the speed of light. Always is, unless you specify ‘in a vacuum’ every time.

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            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.

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              Probably the Youtube video in question

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                Yes that’s it! Thanks for the link!!

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            The real fun starts when things move faster than the speed of light, that’s when you get Cherenkov radiation!

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        Sorta, but it’s a pain in the ass.

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        Just dont.

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    Wait until they see the speaker that makes noise at the speed of sound.

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    Honestly I’d be more impressed by the Star Wars kind that go about thirty miles an hour.

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      Those aren’t lasers. They’re contained plasma projectiles.

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    Meanwhile, this headline goes at the speed of clicks:-).

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    What has science done?!

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      Has Science Really Gone Too Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

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        Is this a reference to something or just aneurism posting?

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          It was the OG Aneurism Posting

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            Aaaah i see. Thanks!

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    Water is wet

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      Easy there, that’s quite a can of worms you’re tipping over.

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        Indeed, many would argue that water can’t be wet, only things that water gets on/in.

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    Have you not seen those Blaster from the galaxy far far away that fire laser half the speed of sound?

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      Those are changed plasma bolts

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    I can run at the speed of running, where is my headline?

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    I think they’ve changed the headline, but not the embedded video:

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      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.

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    I can run at the speed of fat

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