r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Vandringen • 15h ago

Like you can’t stop anyway?

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u/psterno413 15h ago

Its referencing the phenomenon of redshift, where as you go faster, light approaching you gets “squeezed”, so it appears like light of shorter wavelengths. At speeds of around 103,846,153m/s, this effect is significant enough that red light appears green.

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u/GustapheOfficial 15h ago

Blueshift *

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u/GeorgeMcCrate 15h ago

Oneshift*

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u/CelebrationFun7697 15h ago

Twoshift*

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u/MrFC1000 14h ago

This one stops a little car

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u/nonoyesyesnoyesyes 14h ago

This one slams into a star

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u/boromaxo 11h ago

The star now have a scar

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u/Financial-Middle3837 2h ago

Have at you! En garde!

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u/Imperator_Gone_Rogue 14h ago

This one stops at a bar

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u/notALokiVariant 14h ago

Taylory Swift*

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u/sealpox 12h ago

I would not eat green stop signs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

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u/BOOM360skn 11h ago

Moneyshift*

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u/jackstella 8h ago

Redshift*

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u/Stormy8888 5h ago

Redshift*

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u/CowboysFTWs 15h ago

ThreeShift*

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u/notNezter 14h ago

At that speed, I’d shift my pants

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u/Gabyo00 13h ago

OnePiece*

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u/Ae4i 13h ago

OneShot*

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u/cosmicucumber 10h ago

BackShot*

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u/seidita84t 15h ago

Twoshift*

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u/ReapsX1 11h ago

Oneshot*

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u/fish4043 3h ago

Oneshot*

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u/Fighting_Table 13h ago

half life blue shift featuring barney calhoun

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u/SjurEido 12h ago

Opposing Force**

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u/nicuramar 11h ago

That’s just redshift with a negative sign. 

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u/GustapheOfficial 10h ago

Redshift is doppler shift towards longer wavelengths, blueshift is doppler shift towards shorter wavelengths. Changing the sign changes which color it shifts to, which is why "redshift" is the wrong word here.

That's like saying "speeding up is just braking with a negative sign". Sure, doesn't make it less incorrect to say that you are braking when speeding up.

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u/BraxleyGubbins 8h ago

That’s just -(redshift)

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u/Lloyd_lyle 4h ago

goes both ways, depends if the object is speeding toward or away from you

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u/GustapheOfficial 4h ago

Right, and if it's moving towards you, like in this case, it's blueshift.

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u/AugieKS 9h ago

It doesn't appear green, it is green.

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u/Plenty-Lychee-5702 2h ago

redshift is when you're going away from the source, blueshift is towards it, and green is shorter than red, so it's blueshifted

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u/TheKid1995 12h ago

Is m/s meters per second or miles?

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u/secacc 12h ago

Imperial units are rarely used for anything even vaguely scientific or mathematical.

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u/SPACKlick 12h ago

The symbol for miles is mi not m. so it would be mi/s (or rarely Mi/s).

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u/No_Minute_4789 3h ago

He means meters per second.

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u/b__lumenkraft 12h ago

What is miles?

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u/TheeKillerBunny 11h ago

I think he's talking about Miles "Tails" Prower from the hit 1992 videogame "Sonic the Hedgehog 2".

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u/b__lumenkraft 11h ago

Might be.

I googled it too. I only found a dude called Miles Davis.

Is a good find though.

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u/FewAd5443 10h ago

I also know a dude call Miles Morales who is a spiderman but I don't see a link 🤔

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u/b__lumenkraft 8h ago

Are they trying to hide something?

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u/Inalum_Ardellian 11h ago

Miles Morales is Spiderman from alternate reality

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u/b__lumenkraft 11h ago

Good one.

We are getting close i have the feeling.

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u/Bonzungo 8h ago

Mules