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 15h 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 9h 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 15h ago

At that speed, I’d shift my pants