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I can whistle at the speed of sound (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 250 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It'd be impressive if they fire it at like half the speed of light

[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean, any other non-c speed really.

[–] Glowstick 102 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Actually, c is the speed of light in a vacuum, but light travels slower through a medium, like air. So lasers shot through air will actually travel slower than c.

[–] Bassman1805 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

(For anyone curious, the speed of light in earth air is like 99.97% as fast as in vacuum)

[–] jaybone 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bunch of nerds in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You're in science_memes what did you expected?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's going to be space lasers.

[–] 5oap10116 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Do you know what the religious affiliation of these space lasers will be?

[–] dohpaz42 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You have a lot of chutzpah to ask such a question. Oy! What would your mother say?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Flying Spaghetti Monster

[–] 5oap10116 9 points 4 months ago

rAmen

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would be especially interested in speeds larger than c 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Imagine if they made it fire so slow that you could just do a dark souls dodge roll to avoid it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Would you accept 10,000 times slower than the speed of light?

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[–] Nuke_the_whales 116 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] Anticorp 40 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] dandu3 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait until you learn how old my sun is

[–] Anticorp 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 13 points 4 months ago

Claims to travel at the speed of light.
Still takes eight minutes to get here.

Sus.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The laser pointer can travel the light of speed? If you turn it on, does the laser not come out of the laser pointer?

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The army trembling when I bring a mirror

[–] GraniteM 81 points 4 months ago (2 children)

NOW YOU FUCKED UP!

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago

SUPER.

HOT.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I have wifi router that emits microwaves at the speed of light.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pffft, I have a microwave that emits microwaves at microwave speeds to microwave things.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

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

[–] SandmanXC 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wake me up when I can buy a lightsaber.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This picture got so much compression artifacts just in 3 days lol.

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[–] rustyfish 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What has science done?!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Water is wet

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] MTK 9 points 4 months ago

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

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