• @rustyfish
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      5 months ago

      it’s not. Light only travels at c in a vacuum.

      Looks like I am light years away from joining the ackchyually club.

      • Bilbo
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        145 months ago

        If you really want to be pedantic, c is the notation for the “speed of light in a vacuum”, not just the “speed of light”, which depends on the medium.

        • @rustyfish
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          75 months ago

          Which is what I was going for. But as flughoernchen already said, it can.

          Now we just have to bring that laser into space. Or shoot into outer space. An idea so cool, I’m disappointed I didn’t think of it.

      • @grue
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        5 months ago

        But it’s a laser. However fast it’s going, it’s going the speed of itself!

        “Ackchyually” indeed, LOL

      • Karyoplasma
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        5 months ago

        Does not make it “not the speed of light”, only not c. Also the laser would fire particles with the speed of c if fired in a vacuum.

        • @rustyfish
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          45 months ago

          That’s what I wrote. Literally.

      • @[email protected]
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        -45 months ago

        I am being pedantic here, but if the laser travel at the same speed as c in a given medium, then it is going at the speed of light.