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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 241 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 71 points 3 months ago

I mean, any other non-c speed really.

[-] Eril@feddit.org 15 points 3 months ago

I would be especially interested in speeds larger than c 🙂

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 17 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Catoblepas 10 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago

The army trembling when I bring a mirror

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 78 points 3 months ago
[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 72 points 3 months ago

SUPER.

HOT.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

World around

Around the world

World around

Around the world

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 76 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Muscar@discuss.online 17 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

I have lightning fast wifi at home

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 66 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

insert sensitive chuckle-magazine-guy-meme

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

That sounds neat, I won't look it up

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, they probably have it all figured out.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months 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 3 months ago
[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] julianh@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago

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

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Wake me up when I can buy a lightsaber.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Sweet dreams

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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 17 points 3 months ago

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

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 15 points 3 months 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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[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago
[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 months ago
[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] MTK@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

I can run at the speed of fat

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