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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 🙂

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[-] Catoblepas 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] 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

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[-] mononomi@feddit.nl 102 points 1 year ago

The army trembling when I bring a mirror

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago
[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 72 points 1 year ago

SUPER.

HOT.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

World around

Around the world

World around

Around the world

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Muscar@discuss.online 17 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 66 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

insert sensitive chuckle-magazine-guy-meme

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

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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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

That sounds neat, I won't look it up

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they probably have it all figured out.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

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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[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago
[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Edge004@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dave@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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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[-] julianh@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Wake me up when I can buy a lightsaber.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Sweet dreams

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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 15 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] MTK@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I can run at the speed of fat

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