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His beret expands and shrinks because it's stapled to his head -- his head underneath it is expanding and shrinking, dragging the top of the beret with it. [[Special:Contributions/142.134.94.223|142.134.94.223]] 16:23, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
 
His beret expands and shrinks because it's stapled to his head -- his head underneath it is expanding and shrinking, dragging the top of the beret with it. [[Special:Contributions/142.134.94.223|142.134.94.223]] 16:23, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
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Would Beret Guy be experiencing discomfort from these distortions of spacetime?  If it was caused by something like the tidal forces at differing distances from a nearby neutron star or black hole, large enough to cause that much stretching, I'd expect it to be very harmful. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 20:14, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

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FIRST COMMENT! YZ100 2:07, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

I do believe this takes the cake from Doppler Effect as my all time favorite. Jjj (talk) 02:43, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

The Doppler Effect one was a good one. YZ100 (talk) 2:51, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

I tried my best to add a little bit of an explanation, it’s probably not very good and it’s certainly missing some stuff, but at least there’s something now.IllegallyNamed (talk) 03:01, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

even the hat changes. I guess its part of him Student Driver (talk) 03:22, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

I've added a (probably massively incorrect) detail on "The chirp". Someone with better understanding of black holes will probably need to amend it! 161.65.236.209 05:46, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

His beret expands and shrinks because it's stapled to his head -- his head underneath it is expanding and shrinking, dragging the top of the beret with it. 142.134.94.223 16:23, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Would Beret Guy be experiencing discomfort from these distortions of spacetime? If it was caused by something like the tidal forces at differing distances from a nearby neutron star or black hole, large enough to cause that much stretching, I'd expect it to be very harmful. BunsenH (talk) 20:14, 20 June 2026 (UTC)