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[Nid]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100616/tuk-de...to-45dbed5.html

What do you all think of this? I cant quite comprehend why this would be made to be sold to the public, it's apparently "deadly" force could cause so many accidents or even attempted murders.

Furthermore I cant think of a solid use of it other than to ignite things and cut holes through things somewhat inaccurately.

I think comparing it to a lightsaber as well is somewhat foolish, and inaccurate.
If it can be pointed at pilots from whatever range on the ground then it's not really a lightsaber.

Calling it a Lightsaber it would just excite star wars fanboys, and all this media coverage Ive seen of it recently is surely going to just make it far more popular, and thus more of a danger to the public.

Edited by Duo Maxwell, 17 June 2010 - 15:57.

[Kris]

I'll have my high velocity sniper rifle anytime instead of doing silly sword fights.

[Whitey]

I call BS.

[Libains]

I sadly, don't call BS. I call idiots though. Whoever thinks it's responsible to sell these things online is an utter imbecile.

The lightsaber reference is not something the manufacturers put forwards, interestingly. That was the media's creation, and by God will the public pay for the amount of publicity this thing has got. Utterly, utterly irresponsible behaviour to make this thing available online in the first place, and utterly, utterly typical media: "Oh but it's in the public's interest and it's thus out mandate to tell them all about it". The media should know their boundaries, and quite frankly, they should fuck right off with stories like these. They could break the product in an instance, by reporting differently. But instead, they play on the 'cool' factor, print the warning labels, etc. All to sell a few more newspapers. Tomorrow Never Dies, anyone?

[Chyros]

And handheld, right?

Riiiight .

[BeefJeRKy]

 Chyros, on 18 Jun 2010, 1:58, said:

And handheld, right?

Riiiight .

Battery life: 10s

[Libains]

 scopeJim, on 18 Jun 2010, 0:35, said:

 Chyros, on 18 Jun 2010, 1:58, said:

And handheld, right?

Riiiight .

Battery life: 10ms

Corrected

[Zeke]

[Whitey]

Battery life: two hours.

I cannot believe this thing is legitimate. But seeing as it is, I would love to get my hands on one.

[Warlock]

Looks, pretty interesting but I can't really think of a practical use of it - especially when its so dangerous

[n5p29]

okay, now someone should make a lasgun!

[Rai]

I'll prefer a knife any day, then this thing. Because mostly, when you get an accident with a knife you just bleed, while a lightsabre would cause a 3 degree-burn and leave a permanent scar forever. Secondly it is a waste of energy. Third it is just to dangerous in every single way.

[Nid]

I find it interesting that they developed this with the same technology as a home theatre projector.

If they can do this with technology found at home I'd love to know what else they can come up with considering most people have a microwave readily available, and other such technologies.

[Warbz]

A real life lightsabre?
This is definately the kind of thing I'd love to get my hands on.
This is defiantely the kind of thing I should not be allowed to get my hands on.

[Chyros]

The article is in horrendous overstatement. It's not "the most powerful laser ever" by a landslide, it's just the only one of this calibre ever made that's meant as a laser pointer. Ordinary laser cutters are in the kW range and analytical lasers generally are in the megawatt range for the analysis of only a little bit of sample, and often using much more energetic radiation than visible light too. USEXAS analysis uses terawatt lasers. A watt-range laser will not burn anything off you like a lightsaber will in a lifetime, it will hardly even warm your coffee. It's about as much energy as generated by an average LED lamp.

If you try to cut holes with this or even kill someone, you will be in for a massive disappointment.

[Whitey]

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=__5CpKlr4-4

Still pretty awesome if you ask me.

Edited by Boidy, 18 June 2010 - 22:55.

[BeefJeRKy]

 Chyros, on 19 Jun 2010, 0:39, said:

The article is in horrendous overstatement. It's not "the most powerful laser ever" by a landslide, it's just the only one of this calibre ever made that's meant as a laser pointer. Ordinary laser cutters are in the kW range and analytical lasers generally are in the megawatt range for the analysis of only a little bit of sample, and often using much more energetic radiation than visible light too. USEXAS analysis uses terawatt lasers. A watt-range laser will not burn anything off you like a lightsaber will in a lifetime, it will hardly even warm your coffee. It's about as much energy as generated by an average LED lamp.

If you try to cut holes with this or even kill someone, you will be in for a massive disappointment.

It could definitely sear someone's retina though. And that is why some uni students here were detained for playing around with a 800mW Green laser since they could have blinded drivers or even pointed it at incoming airplanes. In fact the week before that incident, someone had pointed a laser at a landing plane as if painting it for a missile strike. Laser pointers can be dangerous if misused.

[Golan]

 Chyros, on 18 Jun 2010, 21:39, said:

The article is in horrendous overstatement. It's not "the most powerful laser ever" by a landslide, it's just the only one of this calibre ever made that's meant as a laser pointer. Ordinary laser cutters are in the kW range and analytical lasers generally are in the megawatt range for the analysis of only a little bit of sample, and often using much more energetic radiation than visible light too. USEXAS analysis uses terawatt lasers. A watt-range laser will not burn anything off you like a lightsaber will in a lifetime, it will hardly even warm your coffee. It's about as much energy as generated by an average LED lamp.

If you try to cut holes with this or even kill someone, you will be in for a massive disappointment.

A 1W laser is Class IV and has already enough power to burn trough plastic and cause serious permanent damage to skin and eyes even from diffuse reflections on some materials. While the power is low compared to other light sources, the power density is extremely high; passing through the eye's lens will also increase power density by about 10^5 due to the beam getting focused immensely.
While it's not possible to cut anything with this laser like a LightSabre would, it is incredibly dangerous especially when wielded by people who think it's too weak to do any serious damage.

[Major Fuckup]

 AjPod, on 18 Jun 2010, 6:08, said:

I sadly, don't call BS. I call idiots though. Whoever thinks it's responsible to sell these things online is an utter imbecile.

The lightsaber reference is not something the manufacturers put forwards, interestingly. That was the media's creation, and by God will the public pay for the amount of publicity this thing has got. Utterly, utterly irresponsible behaviour to make this thing available online in the first place, and utterly, utterly typical media: "Oh but it's in the public's interest and it's thus out mandate to tell them all about it". The media should know their boundaries, and quite frankly, they should fuck right off with stories like these. They could break the product in an instance, by reporting differently. But instead, they play on the 'cool' factor, print the warning labels, etc. All to sell a few more newspapers. Tomorrow Never Dies, anyone?

That's the media for you all ways trying to over do every thing and create civil unrest.

 n5p29, on 18 Jun 2010, 17:19, said:

okay, now someone should make a lasgun!

There you go.

 W!, on 19 Jun 2010, 4:02, said:

A real life lightsabre?
This is definately the kind of thing I'd love to get my hands on.
This is defiantely the kind of thing I should not be allowed to get my hands on.

I would like one for the novelty but i would end up hurting my self with it. That is child's play compared to the laser i got to play with once when i went to work with my uncle and got to stuff around with a metal cutting laser.

For now i think i will still bring a beer bottle to a fight and not a laser.

[Destiny]

I think you should bring your bullbars instead, Major. They're your pride

If people started wielding these in public everyone's going to buy MirrorDragon Skin.

[Major Fuckup]

Its a bit hard to carry 110 kilos of steel around by hand.

[CJ]

And it's even more hard to cover your eyes with it

[Destiny]

But they're reflective!

[Major Fuckup]

Won't matter when he's wearing that bullbar on his chest flat on his back crushing his ribs

Edited by Major Fuckup, 19 June 2010 - 14:20.

[Rich19]

 Duo Maxwell, on 18 Jun 2010, 12:01, said:

I find it interesting that they developed this with the same technology as a home theatre projector.

If they can do this with technology found at home I'd love to know what else they can come up with considering most people have a microwave readily available, and other such technologies.

It's relatively easy to convert a laser pointer into something more dangerous by taking parts from a DVD player or something like that.