Science is Fun Fridays!
The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second.
The Slo Mo Guys have a You Tube channel where they've filmed various actions in slow motion, such as firing bullets and getting a tattoo.
But they also captured the speed of light, using specialized equipment from CalTech.
"We've filmed at some very high frame rates. We're talking up to about half a million... Their camera puts ours to shame and does ten trillion frames per second."
Postdoctoral scholar, Peng Weng, assured them they'd be able to see light moving the length of a bottle.
More recently, they posted about how the Nintendo Zapper worked.
I can still hear the dog laughing at me.
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