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#32 - anonymous (3 weeks ago)
(guy that read all of these)

Dude, it's almost like if everyone commenting on it more or less understands what it is about, but everyone is explaining it.

I usually peruse comments of things I stumble upon and after enjoying the picture, move on to the comments for some entertainment.

You fucked me, you all fucked me.
#30 - anonymous (3 weeks ago)
This does NOT have anything to do with the Doppler effect, idiots. The Doppler effect is sound. This is making a joke on redshift/blueshift. Look it up. Although I'm sure the hundreds of physicists who came out to comment today would be glad to enighten you.
#31 to #30 - anonymous (3 weeks ago)
[url deleted] "Blue shift is the shortening of a transmitted signal's wavelength, and/or an increase in its frequency, due to the Doppler Effect, which indicates that the object is moving toward the observer."

"Look it up."
#28 - anonymous (2 months ago)
Unfortunately, it only works when the car is parked.
#29 to #28 - anonymous (1 month ago)
Not really. You'd just have to travel .386c + the speed of the car. The earth sees redshifting of stars and we are hardly stationary.
#26 - anonymous (2 months ago)
shouldn't it be to fast and not too fast?
#27 to #26 - anonymous (2 months ago)
No it shouldn't be
#25 - anonymous (2 months ago)
TROLL
#24 - anonymous (2 months ago)
Surely a joke as obvious as this doesn't need explaining. We all know what the Doppler effect is.
#22 - anonymous (2 months ago)
or you're colour-blind or wearing green sunglasses
#21 - anonymous (2 months ago)
If you were travelling at .386c, then what color would the white part of the sticker become?
#20 - anonymous (3 months ago)
doppler effect ?

#23 to #20 - anonymous (2 months ago)
Yes it is the doppler effect
#19 - anonymous (3 months ago)
For those who asked how fast you'd have to be moving for this to work, I'd put in the ballpark of about .368c (about 246,000,000 miles per hour.) That was calculated using 475 nm as my blue wavelength and 650 nm as my red wavelength. Answers may vary if you use different wavelengths.
#18 - anonymous (3 months ago)
any uber nerd here want to calculate how fast you would have to go for the sticker to turn blue...
#16 - anonymous (3 months ago)
It works based on red shift, where light waves are compressed if you are moving towards the light source, or the ligth source is moving towards you at incredible speeds. White/red lght will shift to blue if you are moving towards the source, we see this with other galaxies, and can use ti to tell if they are moving towards or away from us. It helps prove the Big Bang Theory.
#15 - anonymous (3 months ago)
The sticker is playing on the Doppler Effect. Most commonly encountered with sound, such as emergency vehicles. If you are at a standstill, and an ambulance or other emergency vehicle is coming towards you, it will sound higher pitched because the frequency increases due to the velocity of the vehicle (at least, relative to you). When it passes and goes away, it sounds low pitched because the frequency is stretched out due to the vehicles velocity (in relation to you). The same applies for light, but the changes are unnoticeable at any achievable speed.
#33 to #15 - anonymous (3 weeks ago)
Doppler effect? dude.... no....
#8 - anonymous (3 months ago)
ummmm for those not into physics.. can some explain that? :S
User avatar #10 to #8 - satanisthesavior (3 months ago)
When an object that emits/reflects light moves towards another object, the light waves are compressed in a similar manner to how sound waves are compressed as a firetruck drives towards you. The sound of the firetruck has a higher pitch. Likewise, the pitch of the light that os being emmitted/reflected gets to a higher pitch the faster the objects travel against each other. When the 'pitch' gets high enough, the red light being reflected or emmited will be percieved as blue. This is known as blue shift. Likewise, the same objects moving away from each other will result in a lower 'pitch', progressing down into the reds and infrareds, known as red shift.
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#9 to #8 - monkeymoo (3 months ago)
i think its about your relative speed to the object, if u are faster than the object it appear bluer or some crazy shit. u can see it with meteors etc
#7 - anonymous (3 months ago)
if you drive fast enough the stop light will turn green
#14 to #7 - anonymous (3 months ago)
i don't know why people rated this comment down. it's a joke about the same exact phenomenon that the bumper stick joke is about. it's true: if you travel fast enough toward a green object, it would blue-shift and green would be one of the potential hues it would appear to be.

good one! :D
#17 to #14 - anonymous (3 months ago)
Actually, driving real fast also makes a traffic light green because of time dilation...
#4 - anonymous (3 months ago)
ohshi--- I lol'd
#3 - anonymous (3 months ago)
Of course, if you're diving that fast, you can't read the sticker.
#2 - anonymous (3 months ago)
hilarious. too bad it doesnt work like that. dam u albert einsein
#11 to #2 - anonymous (3 months ago)
Einsein, E=m c 2, the guy that was so smart he didn't make his bed, or brush his hair...he never missed aday of school, except the day the teacher gave this question, he stayed up figering this question out, then returned to school with this answer. I'll bet he was a pack-rat too!
#12 to #11 - anonymous (3 months ago)
Anonymous, "I can has cheeseburger?", the guy that was so dumb that he couldn't spell Einstein, didn't know shit about Einstein, and made a general dumbass out of himself. I'll bet he was a fag too!
#13 to #12 - anonymous (3 months ago)
This dude is a douche bag. I'm sure he has a small penis or something but try not to be so angry. I mean it's not your fault; you were just born that way.
#6 to #2 - anonymous (3 months ago)
Albert who? o_0
User avatar #1 - satanisthesavior (3 months ago)
Wow. That is the funniest physics joke I have EVER seen!
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#5 to #1 - zipperlip (3 months ago)
agreed!

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