thats one FAST car
And one fast head turn
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyowwwwwwwwwwww
One shift
Two shift
Red shift
Blue shiftDamn, remember when Valve made half life games? It was a better time back then.
Half life : alyx is not that old.
I’d call that half like with an asterisk.
Why?
Because it’s not as easy to get to where you can play it? People don’t write off new games in a series that require a $1,000 PC upgrade, why is a VR headset you can get for much cheaper any different?
If it’s not the barrier to entry, is it the format? Is Metroid Prime not still a Metroid game? Is Ocarina of Time not a Zelda game?
Yes
Well I disagree with you on every point, then:
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Ocarina of Time is a Zelda game.
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Metroid Prime is a Metroid game.
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The Witcher 3 is a Witcher game.
Ergo, Half-Life : Alyx is a Half-Life game.
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what a beatiful green car
That car is speeding
I bet that guy feels like he gets where he’s going in no time at all!
They’d only get a light sentence anyway.
Depending on the frequency of the offence
Might have community service periodically
I love it!
If that guy is keeping track of that car, his neck is def broken
Everything around the car would be broken too, including the car
Pretty sure the sonic boom of this car passing will kill this poor man
Well, when that finally happens the car will be fine, far away from Earth.
YEA! SCIENCE JOKES!
But why is the car stretched? And why doesn’t it appear rotated?
How would you rotate it?
If you look at an object that is moving near the speed of light, it appears rotated, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation.
The poster you are replying to is pointing out the inaccuracies that this comic didn’t consider relativistic effects.
This is also playing on red-shift/blue-shift.
what do you mean “also”?
They are the same effect just using different kinds of wave.
Doppler’s Politics
You can either know the position of the car or the momentum, but not both.
For some reason I can never remember which causes red or blue shift, but with this I might actually remember it
Blue has a smaller wavelength, so when something is approaching fast it “squishes” the light, making a smaller wavelength.
Maybe it’s slightly convoluted but here’s how I tackle it in my head: I just think of infrared and ultraviolet, ultraviolet being greater frequencies than violet and infrared being the opposite for red. Blue is on the way from infrared to ultraviolet, so blue has a greater frequency than red.
