Why the Speed of Light is Actually Horribly Slow

[sotirissotergi]

1800: Damn, my message reached Australia in just 2 months, this is incredibly fast.
2020: *Light is Slow*

[Elzcian]

*Waits 8.5 years for a message to reach a friend on Proxima Centauri*

Imessage: Message Failed to Send

[konolda]

"Hey bro wanna meet up on earth today?"
8 years later
"Yeah sure bro"

[solis]

“Hey I’m single”

“Same here”

“I’m married now”

[numba]

How to get light to be faster:

1. Record a video of you turning on a lightbulb
2. Put the video on 2x speed or faster

[GauravHarsule]

Gamers on Mars:
HOW IS THAT NOT A HEADSHOT

[harrypottah]

Conclusion - Light is still insanely fast just not when going insanely far distances.

[Ycekhold]

"No, no, light speed's too slow."
"Light speed, too slow?!"
"Yes. We're gonna have to go to--LUDICROUS SPEED!"

[KC-bgth]

Imagine waiting 44 minutes just to see “same” in your dms.

[davidefacchini]

Me: *complaining about a girl’s response after 20 hours
Literally every Centaurian colonist: *it’s been 86 years*

[precursors]

Fun fact: There is no “time” for light. Photons that move at speed of light do not age. Universe is 13.7 billion year old, but even for the first photons that appeared in this universe, no time has passed.

[theblack]

Light isn't slow, it's just that the universe is so big it makes everything look slow.

[ntshx]

1950: We want faster cars
1970: We want faster rockets
1990: We want faster computers
2010: We want faster internet
2020: We want faster vaccine
2050 (Colonizing Mars): We want faster spaceships
2100 (Colonizing space): We want faster babies
2500: We want faster teleportation
*3020: We want faster light.*

[TheCubeSnowflake]

Me : sends a novel to someone
*10 years later*
Friend: K

[Fantaiscool]

After 4 years, people on Proxima Centuari have finally received this video.

[jimaanders]

Imagine what it was like just two or three hundred years ago when it took months to send and receive messages between Europe and the New World or Europe and Asia. A really big problem back then was that you didn't know if your message would ever arrive due to problems with the ships.
Only thirty or forty years ago telephone communication between the US and Europe was subject to a noticeable lag. You had to be patient to let the other person respond.

[joantorruella]

“It wpuld take over 20 minutes to get a response!”

*people in the 1800s wainting for a month to get a response to their letter*

Edit: I WILL NOT CORRECT THE TYPOS

[faastex]

The video should be titled "why the universe is actually horribly huge"

[nicono]

Nice video!
One can also add that despite this fact, according to the theory of relativity, the journey of a photon is always instant from its own point of view, no matter how long it actually travels between two locations. And I find it quite funny.

[sannsanniii]

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