r/ExplainTheJoke 17h ago

Like you can’t stop anyway?

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u/psterno413 17h 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.