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It’d be impressive if they fire it at like half the speed of light
I mean, any other non-c speed really.
I would be especially interested in speeds larger than c 🙂
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Would you accept 10,000 times slower than the speed of light?
Still too fast to dodge.
Pffft. Amateur.
just shine a laser through a thing of zircon (n=index of refraction=1.923~2)
so speed of the laser in the zircon = c/n ~c/2
Then we could finally have Star Wars laser guns.
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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
I have lightning fast wifi at home
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
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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.
Ohhhh right. My bad Sorry…
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/
I would hope so
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!
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.
Wake me up when I can buy a lightsaber.
Sweet dreams
There was an auction that started at the price of 69420 USD on the 1st of april of 2022
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(The lightsaber is real, selling an extremely dangerous weapon was the joke)
Meanwhile, this headline goes at the speed of clicks:-).
This picture got so much compression artifacts just in 3 days lol.
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
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.
I can run at the speed of running, where is my headline?
