Free "like" to the first person to figure this out

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    Let's just say that I was inspired to make this picture this morning.
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    What are we trying to figure out?
     
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    There is a brainy joke. Explain the brainy part and you get a like
     
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    That's alot of mph's! Sublime green ftw!
     
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    readymix ...Lest ye be trod upon... Staff Member

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    You might be at the wrong end of the spectrum.

    Beyond 8 x 10^14 would be above the violet range of light, and therefore, outside of the visible spectrum.
     
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    you're getting close mix
     
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    bah, stupid google calculator switching units on me without me noticing...
    yeah mix has it, and is correct, i'm fixing my image ... please hold
     
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    I am not really going to do the math here, but there are a few things of note.

    First, it wont matter anyway what color the light is, as the speed you are going in MPH exceeds C, and therefore violates the fundamental laws of physics. But even if you could achieve the speed of light in a vehicle like a car, relativity says that your mass would become infinite. You would pretty much vaporize under the crushing gravity of your own mass.
     
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    readymix ...Lest ye be trod upon... Staff Member

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    Ahh, there we go, lol. Yeah, I kinda figured what you were up to, but the numbers weren't adding up in my head.
     
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    i rechecked the maths...it's right
     
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    so yeah 1/3 c is the speed that you'd have to go for a red light to be green due to the Doppler effect - that "speedo" up there is calibrated so that 8.4 on the guage is 1/c in MPH
     
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    readymix ...Lest ye be trod upon... Staff Member

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    Sounds about right. The math makes rough sense. Wasn't thinking doppler though, nice move there.
     
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    Saw this bumper sticker online today. I thought it was relevant to this thread.

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    xluben, Oct 4, 2012
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    Haha was just going to post this. Beat me to it...
     
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    Normally I like me a good nerd-fest, but...
     
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