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Stu Spelling Bee

If you turn on your headlights while driving at the speed of light, what happens?

Posted - July 16, 2020
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  • 10664
    Once they pry you off of the back of the seat, you get a speeding ticket and a have to buy another car.
      July 16, 2020 2:41 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    You have an encounter with an immovable object.
      July 16, 2020 3:21 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    First, let's keep it real. Light speed(c) is unobtainable by macroscopic objects. So let's make it 99.9999999%c. Light doesn't care. It will still speed away from you at light speed relative to you.
      July 16, 2020 5:39 PM MDT
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  • 53526

     

      Little Randy D:   (((((Quick, Jane S, I’ll distract him while you escape.))))) 
    “But it’s pudding time right now, and today is Thursday, so it’s chocolate.”

    ~

      July 16, 2020 5:55 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Are you kidding, with all the folks on here who have no idea how to do that?
      July 16, 2020 6:15 PM MDT
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  • 53526

     


    ~

      July 16, 2020 8:10 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    Do what?
      July 17, 2020 8:24 AM MDT
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  • 53526

     

      I know, right?
    ~

      July 17, 2020 8:27 AM MDT
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  • 44654
    Look at my second answer below.
      July 17, 2020 8:29 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    "Let's keep it real." Your words.
      July 17, 2020 8:38 AM MDT
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  • 7795
    That's the best answer I've ever heard. At least the one that I could easily understand.
      July 17, 2020 8:42 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    Not true!  Didn't you see 'Back to the Future?'  Everyone knows that a Delorean automobile can exceed the speed of light. 
      July 20, 2020 12:06 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    Dang...you got me on that. Back to the drawing board.
      July 20, 2020 4:44 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    You won't be able to see where you are going. 
      July 16, 2020 7:19 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    I see what you did.

    https://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/headlights.html
      July 17, 2020 8:28 AM MDT
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  • 182
    To me, that sounds like a variation of the old conundrum: 'If you fart while jogging at the speed of light, will it divert you from your planned trajectory (or not)?' 
      August 19, 2020 8:13 AM MDT
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