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[–] 70 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Exercise for the reader: Assuming average human eyesight, how many picoseconds away from a collision are you if you can read that size of text and the relative velocity between you and the car ahead of you is large enough that the red label is sufficiently blueshifted to look blue?

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  • [–] 67 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    for 800nm to 400nm, we need gamma=2. So v~.86c. At 20m this gives you ~80ns.

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    For perspective, this speed is:

    • 928 157 450 kilometers per hour
    • 576 730 301 miles per hour

    In one second, you would travel around:

    • 258 000 kilometers
    • 160 000 miles

    Which is around 6.43 times around the Earth's equator.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    But how many Olympic sized swimming pools full of jello?

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    The sticker should also say something like "But don't worry, we're going to be evaporated in a huge explosion anyway, due to the gigantic release of energy when you crash into my car in a few nanoseconds."

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I want to know how fast you need to go to be color shifted on a traffic camera. The more I think about it the less likely getting enough light to be picked up by the camera might be an issue even with perfect placement

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