futurama: quantum finish

[PineappleLiar]

In an ideal world all of the horses enter a black box before the finish line and we all get our money back on bets because the riders all coexist in a superstate of winning.

[restorasenrisei]

This joke is more on the nose to me than it was before I knew about quantum mechanics.
Hilariously, this means the joke was changed by my awareness of it.

[whimsy]

I wonder if Heisenburg could've predicted his science would be used this way.

[taleyajoinson]

hands down my favourite underrated Futurama joke

[SharpVCN]

Can we also talk about the joke of them using a telescope on a screen?

[TentacleBeast]

I love how this joke is more funny in November 2020 than it was when it aired....

[zachflag]

Futurama ran so that Rick and Morty could chew on the starting gate

[ZackRToler]

I love how this joke became hilarious after I learned about quantum physics

[NarcissistMargarine]

Funny that shows like Rick and Morty get praised for their high level of "intellect" while Futurama was easily one of the funniest and cleverest shows even made.

[darknessblades]

For those that want to know, if you play it at 0.25% speed you can see that Number 4 is just a few pixels away from finishing, before the Frame where both are finished.

[Dudewtf]

I’m convinced Matt Greoning has a Time Machine somewhere

[Mudo]

"The writing staff held three Ph.D.s, seven master's degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard University."

Some of the most overqualified people to write cartoons.

[KissedToge]

"You changed the outcome by measuring it"
I keep thinking about this clip randomly and bursting into laughter

[NyscanRohid]

Quantum horse racing would be more like shooting a blast of horses at the finish line and trying to determine who crossed it first by the timing of the sound of the impact.

[shinobix]

The most surprising part is that it's 3000 years in the future and Scientists still haven't found a way around the "Can''t look at photons without changing their actions" problem

[AlexPBenton]

The only way for the race to not be affected by this is for there to be no light. The actual measuring isn’t what’s changing it, it’s the light interacting with the particles which adjusts the positioning. The outcome is the same wether they look at it or not, the difference is the light (which is needed in order to measure)

[lordsmorgasbord]

"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!"

-2020 US presidential election

[PlanetXtreme]

This is funny whether you know quantum mechanics or not, and that's the best part about this joke.

[The_Real_Flump]

I've never realized that they just point the microscope at the screen! That's hilarious

[JC]

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Trump right now