Green Laser Moron
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Just hope these morons don't get there hands on the blue lasers.
i think i had this lastnight.
saw a bright light flash across the interior of the car, had absolutely no idea what it was, looked in the nearside mirror and could see a pedestrian with a bright green light on their back (ie being pointed at them) but couldnt figure out the direction it came from
maybe this is a crazy spreading across the mindless idiots across teh country
why cant we have massacres of mindless idiots for a change?
saw a bright light flash across the interior of the car, had absolutely no idea what it was, looked in the nearside mirror and could see a pedestrian with a bright green light on their back (ie being pointed at them) but couldnt figure out the direction it came from
maybe this is a crazy spreading across the mindless idiots across teh country
why cant we have massacres of mindless idiots for a change?
I can't tell if your trolling but ill bite, laser pointers are known to cause retina damage if shined into eyes hence the warnings, a friend of mine has impaired vision in his left eye due to a laser injury in the 80's. the beam of a laser pointer is more powerful than staring into the sun and I think we can all agree that is not a good thing.
If your read the title the OP is discussing a "green laser" which are even more powerful than the red type lasers that were popular on key rings in the late 90's.
Cheers hurf.
Any updates with this?
ill be a gayer and agree with you. like a said earlier in this thread, what use do they have other than to amuse cats and 9 year olds? and you especially dont need one that can melt plastic and pop baloons for that purpose
you can use them for experiments. For example, they placed a reflective plate on the moon and you can point a laser at it and record it bouncing back
B@
Green lasers are a lot more damaging than red because your eyes are much more sensitive to that wavelength.
I have a green laser pointer, <5mW. Anything more is pointless and dangerous. Its used (not much though!) for astronomy, and handy for teaching constellations etc. Because the beam is visible, you can see where you are aiming, therefore when misused a lot more dangerous as you can see exactly where you are aiming.
They should be regulated the same way as knives. If you do not have good reason to have one, thats the problem. Like carrying knives, there is very little reason for having one wandering round the streets etc.
I have a green laser pointer, <5mW. Anything more is pointless and dangerous. Its used (not much though!) for astronomy, and handy for teaching constellations etc. Because the beam is visible, you can see where you are aiming, therefore when misused a lot more dangerous as you can see exactly where you are aiming.
They should be regulated the same way as knives. If you do not have good reason to have one, thats the problem. Like carrying knives, there is very little reason for having one wandering round the streets etc.
http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/Spyder_III_Pro_Arctic_Series-96-37.html
This genuinely angers me. These should be banned.
Who the hell would buy one? A bunch of chavs trying to cause damage that's who.
This genuinely angers me. These should be banned.
Who the hell would buy one? A bunch of chavs trying to cause damage that's who.
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you can use them for experiments. For example, they placed a reflective plate on the moon and you can point a laser at it and record it bouncing back
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You can, if you have a massive receiving station to monitor for the tiny fractions of reflected light that make it back to source.
You cannot simply point an ebay laser at the moon and get a reflected dot on your head
its got a bloody strobe... imagine the damage that could do
The mere thought of someone even contemplating doing this angers me.
There is nothing you can derive from doing it. The only reason to do it is to cause harm to someone else. These people quite frankly should be put down.
Why does British society have this knee jerk "ban them all" reaction to everything these days? There is a never ending list of things that can be used for nefarious purposes, and if we banned them all, society would cease to function.
They do have legitimate uses - star gazing for example. I've seen them used to point out stars and constellations, very effective, and as long as they have a legitimate use, saying "ban them all" is clearly an over-reaction.
As much as anything else, why do people always think that banning them will help. The criminal underclass who do **** like what happened to the OP are going to get their hands on them anyway. The star gazers are the ones who would suffer restricting them.
They do have legitimate uses - star gazing for example. I've seen them used to point out stars and constellations, very effective, and as long as they have a legitimate use, saying "ban them all" is clearly an over-reaction.
As much as anything else, why do people always think that banning them will help. The criminal underclass who do **** like what happened to the OP are going to get their hands on them anyway. The star gazers are the ones who would suffer restricting them.
they should be locked up
Just like this cretin
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nort...an-jailed-for-laser-pen-prank-72703-29127109/
Just like this cretin
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nort...an-jailed-for-laser-pen-prank-72703-29127109/
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The reason that lasers are damaging to eyes is because the beam is very coherent, and thus able to be focused to a very very small area on your retina, causing the damage.
Green light has a shorter wavelength, therefore more power and potentially more damage. Just as possible to be blinded from red light as green though, it's the coherence that's the real killer. I'd be more afraid of a pure low powered red beam than a higher powered green one with a poor quality beam.
Trivia: there was a 1m2 mirror put on the moon on the first landing, it's used to calculate the distance the moon is from the earth very accuratly. However, by the time the beam from the laser they use reaches the moon, it is shining a spot 120km2!
Green light has a shorter wavelength, therefore more power and potentially more damage. Just as possible to be blinded from red light as green though, it's the coherence that's the real killer. I'd be more afraid of a pure low powered red beam than a higher powered green one with a poor quality beam.
Trivia: there was a 1m2 mirror put on the moon on the first landing, it's used to calculate the distance the moon is from the earth very accuratly. However, by the time the beam from the laser they use reaches the moon, it is shining a spot 120km2!
These things really annoy me. Someone I know has a red laser thing on their keyring which they leave about near kids who can play with it. Unbelievable. It's not being a killjoy, they can permanently damage your eyes. That's big and clever isn't it. I once stared into one when I was a kid because a couple of my mates did saying it was "cool". What a complete tool I was. I wear glasses now. Not sure if that made my eyes worse - I mean I wore glasses anyway but...yeah...horrible things. The green ones can literally burn surfaces I thought?
he looks like an inbred too