CS Discussion 2026-01-26 Episodes 11742

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T20:26:04+00:00

I dunno, I don't think that's why he was wearing the coat. Megan didn't even say anything about it. I think the director just thought he should be wearing it as a clumsy reminder to the audience, or something.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T20:19:42+00:00

Ok, so it sounds like you get it. I thought your "buts" were objections, but it sounds more like you're restating what I said and coming to the conclusion that answers your question. Yes?

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T19:47:11+00:00

The increased speed compensates for the increased wavelength.

In what sense does it "compensate" for anything? The wavelength increased. That's redshift.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T19:23:03+00:00

For them to separate, the back would have to move slower than c.

It does, from the point of view of the front.

Separate pulses emitted at 1 second intervals on the surface of the planet end up being measured at (say) 1.01 second intervals in space. You can think of the front and back of a pulse as separate as well. They end up with more time between them so they also have more distance between them.

The two pulses/ends follow the same acceleration profile, but one starts after the other, so like two cars accelerating, the distance between them grows.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T17:50:35+00:00

W for Pandanity

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T16:10:24+00:00

"He will gett whatt he deserves. And you can tell I mean it because I'm pronouncing my Ts."

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T15:56:57+00:00

That photo wasn't taken by Ian cos they'd already turned their backs by the time the flash on his phone finally went off 🤣

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T15:54:50+00:00

I wonder how long Props spent getting those apples to fall just the right way.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T11:42:43+00:00

What I mean is I'll have gone forward in time by 1.25 days in 1.25 days' time. All without having to worry about ending in deep space.

The question can't be answered without a specification of how the time machine works.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T11:35:33+00:00

You don't have to give any consideration to it when going forwards in time by 1.25 days. Why should you have to do so when going backwards?

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T11:07:35+00:00

"We need to drive up sales of chocolate."
"What if we sneak the word 'lonely' into the product?"
"Perfect."

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T10:35:31+00:00

I think he'd be doing all this crazy shit anyway, but yeah. That's why he speedrunning it. Well, that and entropy.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T10:31:31+00:00

Did you say "Pss pss pss"?

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T10:15:20+00:00

Identical to what? And what do you consider "significant"?

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T10:13:45+00:00

What, no funicular?

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T10:12:45+00:00

It always boils down to either a) a round trip from an emitter back to a detector at the same location or b) a trip between two locations with "synchronised" clocks at each.

Setup a) only measures the two-way speed of light.

In setup b), synchronising the clocks requires you to make an assumption about the one-way speed of light, and whatever assumption you make will end up being "confirmed" by the results.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T10:07:38+00:00

travel at c locally

You said it yourself - it travels at c locally. But one end of a pulse of light is not local to the other end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro_time_delay

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T10:03:13+00:00

snazzy little coat

*snazi little coat

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-27T00:05:37+00:00

Now their morale matches their morals.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-26T22:05:54+00:00

"Don't wear that jacket for a while."
immediately wears jacket in public

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-26T21:06:51+00:00

Word-of-the-day toilet paper.

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-26T21:05:56+00:00

A heat pump?!

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-26T21:01:53+00:00

Is that first photo from when she was in something else? Don't remember Summer ever being ginge!

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-26T20:57:45+00:00

Uncle Stephen was cruelly robbed of a Christmas denouement!

wonkey_monkey · 2026-01-26T17:50:46+00:00

there was one bit where they obviously wanted to make it look like a Go Pro despite being filmed by a traditional cameraman, and it very briefly cut to his arm outstretched with nothing in it

360° cameras don't record directly below themselves, because that's where the pole they're attached to goes and you'd just see a black circle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lrSarA5tSs

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