Comment on Jesus take the accelerator

• eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, how fast would you have to go to get green?

  Ok never mind I looked it up. 197,640,000 km/hr

  According to: sciencenotes.org/fast-go-make-red-light-look-gree…

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You would probably be out of frame by the time the speeding camera takes the picture, if it triggered at all xD

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The preceding shockwave would annihilate it first anyway.

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      • haerrii@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Kind of relevant xkcd what if video

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• hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, you’ve overshot and ended up in Japan.

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just to expand the explanation, blue and green were both just “ao” in Japanese until relatively recently (relatively still being a fairly long time), when “midori” started becoming more popular to refer to green.

    As for why the traffic light is still called “blue” despite being green, one need only ask why there is a very popular rhyme scheme in English that goes “roses are red, violets are blue…” when violets are violet.

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