Author Topic: Now THAT's a laser pointer!!!! (Read 935 times)

Neubob · « **on:** January 01, 2007, 02:25:39 PM »

A little demo

The catalog

The laser in the video is less than one third as powerful as some of the ones available on that website. Although the $3000 price tag is a bit high, the potential fun factor is priceless. I can already see applications in indoor insect control, as well as zapping soon-to-be former friends from across the room.

herrhav0k · « **Reply #1 on:** January 01, 2007, 02:31:32 PM »

"You'll burn your eye out, kid"

Apeking · « **Reply #2 on:** January 01, 2007, 02:44:37 PM »

"indoor insect control"

Have a look here and do a search for "birds". It's surprisingly humane.

These are milliwatt lasers. The University of Rochester in New York is building a more powerful, petawatt model here, although I imagine you have to have a very good reason to book time with it. The photograph on their homepage looks remarkably like the Gary Numan stage set here, including a pyramid triangle thing!

Neubob · « **Reply #3 on:** January 01, 2007, 07:24:56 PM »

So the 200 milliwatt can burn through a balloon in less than a second, and through foil in several seconds. I wonder what level of output they'll need to achieve before the government decides to control their distribution.

sluggish · « **Reply #4 on:** January 01, 2007, 07:29:41 PM »

They already do. You have to have a license to own one above a certain wattage (can't remember what exactly I'll get back).

sluggish · « **Reply #5 on:** January 01, 2007, 07:31:55 PM »

And here you go-

http://www.lasercompliance.com/us-regs.htm

Meatwad · « **Reply #6 on:** January 01, 2007, 07:33:46 PM »

I was hoping the bird would have a hole burned through it, or at least set on fire.

VOR · « **Reply #7 on:** January 01, 2007, 08:27:50 PM »

I watched some of the videos. I can do all that and more with my $30 Red Ryder.

If it was powerful enough to discreetly burn a hole thru the radiator of the putz tailgating me on I-24, I'd consider it.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #8 on:** January 01, 2007, 08:47:52 PM »

WTF is a "petawatt"?

Tennessee Girls Know Marines Use No Protection

Tera
Giga
Mega
Kilo
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Meatwad · « **Reply #9 on:** January 01, 2007, 09:00:58 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
WTF is a "petawatt"?

The unit of crying power of any given PETA member

Viking · « **Reply #10 on:** January 01, 2007, 09:05:18 PM »

Terawatt (10^12 watt)
Petawatt (10^15 watt)
Exawatt (10^18 watt)
Zettawatt (10^21 watt)
Yottawatt (10^24 watt)

Gunslinger · « **Reply #11 on:** January 01, 2007, 09:07:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Viking
Terawatt (10^12 watt)
Petawatt (10^15 watt)
Exawatt (10^18 watt)
Zettawatt (10^21 watt)
Yottawatt (10^24 watt)

How come the laser idiots get to make up their own scale?

Viking · « **Reply #12 on:** January 01, 2007, 09:13:07 PM »

They are the common orders of magnitude above Terra in the Metric system.

Yotta
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Neubob · « **Reply #13 on:** January 01, 2007, 10:25:42 PM »

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Originally posted by VOR
I watched some of the videos. I can do all that and more with my $30 Red Ryder.

If this statement doesn't embody the spirit of technological innovation, I don't know what does.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 02, 2007, 09:05:15 AM »

Unless the friggin laser hums because it is so powerful, an air gun is not a replacement. It still has to be cocked, loaded and shot, all loud operations.