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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 241 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 71 points 1 year ago

I mean, any other non-c speed really.

[-] Eril@feddit.org 15 points 1 year ago

I would be especially interested in speeds larger than c ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Catoblepas 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Pffft. Amateur.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Then we could finally have Star Wars laser guns.

this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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