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User avatar #79 - advice [OP] (03/28/2015) [+] (5 replies)
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First top content, thanks everyone If there is any need for advice, I am here for you all <3
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#91 to #14 - anon (03/28/2015) [-]
"Sir, we've been surrounded!!"

"Then we can't miss!"
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User avatar #1 - mildlyangryrussian (03/27/2015) [-]
I love comps like these. They always end in some bad ass war veteran who like hate two broken legs, and still managed to kill 900 people with only three twigs, a rock, and two ferrets.
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User avatar #64 to #1 - elcreepo (03/28/2015) [-]
Ferrets like eyeballs
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User avatar #51 to #1 - mildlyangryrussian (03/27/2015) [-]
Just realized I spelled hate instead of had....it was 4 in the morning. that is my excuse.
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#55 to #1 - harleycurnow (03/28/2015) [-]
And one of the ferrets only had 3 legs.
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#7 to #1 - fogglebeast (03/27/2015) [-]
Ah, you mean like this one?
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#17 - removekimchi (03/27/2015) [-]
Chesty Puller is my hero
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User avatar #67 to #17 - alphagex (03/28/2015) [-]
I remember back in high school in my history class the teacher take out a soldier poem and reads it www.warmuseum.ca/files/2014/07/jaclyn-salter.pdf this was the poem

i found here a site with war quotes poietes.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/there-is-no-glory-in-battle-worth-the-blood-it-costs-dwight-d-eisenhower/
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User avatar #60 to #17 - wtfduud (03/28/2015) [-]
I can pull your chest if you know what I mean.

Unless you're a dude
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User avatar #30 to #17 - apurpleliger (03/27/2015) [-]
Also at one point he was "Private Puller"
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User avatar #75 to #30 - yunogasaii (03/28/2015) [-]
At two points, actually
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#9 - henrycolt (03/27/2015) [-]
The kickass fact here is the husband drinking in the bar for 12 hours.
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#31 to #9 - igotladiesandmoney (03/27/2015) [-]
go hard or go home
get it?
because he didnt go home?
i'll leave now
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#50 to #9 - haikuhamsters (03/27/2015) [-]
Honey, can you not-
Seriously, stop screaming
That's it. I'm leaving
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#5 - leonhardt (03/27/2015) [-]
>Was able to stop light completely

Wow he discovered how shadows are formed
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#69 to #5 - anon (03/28/2015) [-]
It sounds more like he learned to turn the light switch off.
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#6 to #5 - redcapz (03/27/2015) [-]
how do you even stop it without making it hit something that has no transparency?
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#10 to #6 - anon (03/27/2015) [-]
The same way you do anything awsome in science: Lasers.

They fired a laser at an opaque crystal which caused it's atoms to be in a quantum superposition which made them transparent to a narrow band of light. They then trapped the light by turning off the control laser and managed to hold it for a minute before it was released.

The important part is that they didn't just block the light, they trapped it and then released it as though it hadn't been stopped.
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#23 to #10 - regalith (03/27/2015) [-]
That's not the way they normally do it though. The most common way is to pass photons through ultra cooled atomic gasses close to 0 kelvin such as rubidium. When a photon interacts with the rubidium, it passes energy off to nearby molecules, but does not lose its identity much like how refraction of light works in water. The processes of passing off energy to surround molecules allows for the photon to slow down without losing its identity. If passed through a large enough medium, light slows down and starts interacting with other photons to form particles
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User avatar #65 to #5 - hattheifbatman (03/28/2015) [-]
light reflects, dumbass
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#16 to #5 - cheno (03/27/2015) [-]
Fyi, Lene is a danish, female name.
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#47 to #5 - anon (03/27/2015) [-]
>I is of having no physic brain
leonhardt, 27/03/2015
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#35 to #5 - joemamaa (03/27/2015) [-]
well whenever light hits an object normally it is absorb or reflected but doesn't "stop"
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#93 to #35 - joemamaa (03/28/2015) [-]
fyi this is what spacepixel said "Aborbtion and reflection is stopping it from reaching what otherwise would be its destination." still not stopping the lights movement and btw great spelling
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User avatar #94 to #93 - spacepixel (03/28/2015) [-]
.. Yes, I was making the point that leonhardt meant "stopping" as in "blocking or preventing" rather than "bringing to a complete halt."

Shadows are caused by a body preventing rays of light from hitting a surface.

Nevermind the fact he was doing it for a humorous effect and you all have taken this too seriously.
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#15 to #5 - aizeinstein (03/27/2015) [-]
Comment Picture
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User avatar #18 - fasthink (03/27/2015) [-]
"Slowing down light" is completely impossible.
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#56 to #52 - anon (03/28/2015) [-]
the problem is that the semantics are incorrect. they are not &quot;stopping light&quot;. It is stored as energy in a crystal. the only impressive thing is that the stored photons dont lose significant information for 60 sec.
the problem is that the semantics are incorrect. they are not "stopping light". It is stored as energy in a crystal. the only impressive thing is that the stored photons dont lose significant information for 60 sec.
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User avatar #19 to #18 - weightedtemp (03/27/2015) [-]
Wanna back that up?
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User avatar #20 to #19 - fasthink (03/27/2015) [-]
Einstein's theory of special relativity is based on the idea that the speed of light is always constant. The only way we can 'slow down' light is by forcing it to travel through a different medium, such as glass, but while it appears to go slower, it actually doesn't. Instead, the glass bends the light in a multitude of way, lengthening the path it has to travel. I made a little picture in paint to show this For example, say you're going to a friends house driving at a constant 60 km/h. Now, if you follow the straight path to his house, it would only take you a minute to get there. But, for some reason, you take a different, longer path to his house, going down different streets and arriving at your friends house after 2 minutes of driving. Technically, yes, it took you longer to travel from point A to point B, but you never slowed down, you just took a longer path.
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#27 to #20 - fasthink (03/27/2015) [-]
Also I forgot my picture
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#32 to #20 - conwadconwad (03/27/2015) [-]
its important to remember that Einstein also straight up ignored quantum physics because he didnt like how it fluctuated things that were otherwise constant.
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User avatar #33 to #32 - fasthink (03/27/2015) [-]
To be honest I wish I could do the same, it would make things so much easier
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#48 to #20 - anon (03/27/2015) [-]
God you ****** special relativity in the ass real hard. He's talking about the speed of light in a vacuum all the damn time. You don't age slower when you go scuba diving, ******* .
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User avatar #22 to #20 - captnnorway (03/27/2015) [-]
Light travels faster in cosmos than it does on earth. That's why whenever we talk about lightspeed we refer to how quick it goes in space. I'm not black science guy so I can't say if stopping light is possible or not, but light speed certainly fluctuates.

From what I remember from highschool physics, the speed of light in our atmosphere is around 100k/s slower than in cosmos and 100 000k/s slower when going through glass.
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User avatar #26 to #22 - fasthink (03/27/2015) [-]
The reason that light appears to be going faster in a vacuum than in our atmosphere is the same reason it appears to be going slower through glass. When light enters a material, photons are absorbed by the atoms in that material, increasing the energy of the atom. The atom will then lose energy after some tiny fraction of time, emitting a photon in the process. This photon, which is identical to the first, travels at the speed of light until it is absorbed by another atom and the process repeats. The delay between the time that the atom absorbs the photon and the excited atom releases as photon causes it to appear that light is slowing down.
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User avatar #92 to #20 - exerthaddock (03/28/2015) [-]
The speed of light 299,792,458 m/s or c is the rate at which light moves through a vacuum, but it can slow down when it goes through matter.The speed of light through air is actually 299,700 km/s less than c Nothing can go faster than c, but not all light travels at a rate of c. Fun fact: Sometimes, electrons move faster than light through certain materials, causing an effect known as a photonic boom, which gives off a type of radiation called Cherenkov radiation.
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User avatar #71 to #20 - flamboyant (03/28/2015) [-]
Doesn't that mean its speed remains constant even though they slowed its velocity? Maybe that's what they were referring to.
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#68 to #20 - anon (03/28/2015) [-]
How long ago did you study physics? This idea hasn't been the norm for at least 10 years.

That is, outside high-school physics which simplifies everything to stupid-people levels.
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User avatar #34 to #20 - toncheky (03/27/2015) [-]
Makes sense.
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User avatar #21 to #20 - weightedtemp (03/27/2015) [-]
Fair enough, makes sense
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User avatar #24 to #18 - tosatsu (03/27/2015) [-]
The speed of light is relative buddy, welcome to 2015.
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User avatar #25 to #24 - fasthink (03/27/2015) [-]
The speed of light is always constant unless traveling at the speed of light Unless something happened that someone wants to explain to me please
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#72 to #18 - anon (03/28/2015) [-]
You're right. I don't know why people are arguing with you. You're explanation is put into layman's terms, but it's right. I have my bachelor's in nuclear physics and that's how it was explained to me.
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User avatar #38 to #18 - abuwami (03/27/2015) [-]
I was curious as to what they meant by "stopping light" precisely, so I looked for a satisfying explanation as to what actually happens to the photons. I think I have an answer you might appreciate. I'm assuming its the same experiment, but I'm not positively sure. They had a control laser that could force a crystal to be transparent or opaque. They sent light carrying information into the crystal while it was transparent, and then they make the crystal opaque while the light is still inside. The photons go away, and the information is stored in the spin excitations of the atoms. When they want that information back, they can get it out by making the crystal transparent again, and the atoms will hold the information for 60 seconds before it fades out. I can see why people talk about this as "stopping light", and I think it's a good description but only if the people describing it that way understand what's really happening.
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#13 - anon (03/27/2015) [-]
Paul Erdos is the most prolific mathematics writer in history. Now you know why.
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#28 to #13 - nostresstoday (03/27/2015) [-]
You could say he was the best methematic in history yes
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User avatar #53 to #13 - donbionicle (03/27/2015) [-]
He, uh, also bears a striking...resemblance to...one very prolific, uh, actor.
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#36 - ldnelson (03/27/2015) [-]
Chesty Puller is that guy you really don't want to **** with
Chesty Puller is that guy you really don't want to **** with
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#11 - anon (03/27/2015) [-]
Yeah the Japanese surprise attack at Port Arthur was not comparative to Pearl Harbour. I'm not an American, I'm from NZ, but comparing a surprise fleet attack which technically resulted in the Japanese fleet retreating and with no major ship losses to Pearl Harbour is way off. British attack of Taranto which inspired the Japanese to torpedo in shallow water is the next closest thing.
You were dead on about the not declaring war thing though.
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#29 - Cyraxx (03/27/2015) [-]
Lene Hau in 1999.
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User avatar #54 - mykoira (03/28/2015) [-]
So you are saying that if I moved at all in a spesific moment in 2001 I technically moved faster than light? That's cool.
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#49 - thatguyontheright ONLINE (03/27/2015) [-]
There is more to this. Michael Jackson wrote the episode and the song "Happy Birthday Lisa" but did not perform the song, that was done by a soundalike...why? Because Michael thought it was funny.
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#46 - indalx (03/27/2015) [-]
**indalx used "*roll picture*"**
**indalx rolled image** How smart i am
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#45 - mathmanchris (03/27/2015) [-]
Erdös has worked with so many mathematicians that every mathematician is given a number depending on how close they are to having published a paper with him. Erdös himself has 0, every person he worked with has 1, mathematicians who published a paper with someone with a 1 have a 2 themselves and so on. The prof I wrote my bachelor thesis for has an Erdös number of 3.
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User avatar #59 - rundas (03/28/2015) [-]
I really don't feel like I needed to know any of these facts.
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User avatar #63 - wargeneralwest (03/28/2015) [-]
heh... Private Puller
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#83 - damiar (03/28/2015) [-]
Chesty puller was a hell of a man
****** 5 whores without leaving his can
3 whores down they thought he was through
But he whacked off he jacked off and he ****** the other two!
Chesty puller was a hell of a man
****** 10 whores without leaving his can
Took him 2 days just to finish on all ten
Then he whacked off and jacked off and ****** em all again
Chesty puller was a hell of a man
Killed a hundred men just to prove he can
They had him surrounded and thought that he was done
But he whacked off he jacked off and screamed "I've only just begun!"

It's a running cadence
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#73 - garymotherfingoak (03/28/2015) [-]
>2012 episode 3
>trusting kickass"facts".com without citations
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User avatar #66 - HURLEYSURFERDUDE ONLINE (03/28/2015) [-]
Chesty Puller Mentioned in a post, Swell with CLP and uniform inspections.
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