Maybe it’s going to be space lasers.
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Glowstick@lemmy.world 1 month agoActually, 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.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
5oap10116@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you know what the religious affiliation of these space lasers will be?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You have a lot of chutzpah to ask such a question. Oy! What would your mother say?
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 month ago
“You’re so skinny why are you not eating”
marcos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A laser strong enough to be used as a weapon will probably not leave a lot of medium on its path.
But the front-most part will still travel at less than c. It will just speed-up after a while.
sinkingship@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I’m curious. What happens to the medium? Does it simply get pushed aside? Or pushed along? Or will it eat up some energy and react to something else?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Much like lightning, a powerful enough laser will ionize the air. That ionized air is hot and rises, just like the ionized gasses from combustion.
A powerful laser will look like a beam of fire.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 1 month ago
(For anyone curious, the speed of light in earth air is like 99.97% as fast as in vacuum)
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bunch of nerds in this thread.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
You’re in science_memes what did you expected?
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 month ago
hot science girls
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 month ago
exactly where they should be.
LilDumpy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ya, but that’s JUST slow enough to be able to see it.