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Laser protests (i.pinimg.com)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] Jordan117 22 points 12 hours ago

It's a nice sentiment, but things haven't exactly worked out for the pro-democracy movement in HK.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

"Sir, the people are not standing for our shit anymore. They're holding a laser rave. The police state is crumbling as we speak."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

would be radical, tho

[–] Sanctus 4 points 14 hours ago

I have this dream every night

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

is it just me or is this image way too pixelated to be legible?

[–] levzzz 11 points 15 hours ago

Lemmy shows you thumbnails by default, you gotta open it up in your browser and edit the link to see the original image

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Legible for me in Voyager for iOS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Idk I'm on mobile and it opened okay. Maybe yours didn't load right

Edit: oh nvm I think the original post got updated to higher res

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Phone? Some apps on iOS (and probably android) default to a scaled down version of the image when it's really large (or just tall in this case). On desktop it's legible but god damn has it been jpeged to hell.

[–] Nikelui 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Am I the only one thinking about the possible eye damage from all that random laser flying around? But maybe these pens don't have enough power to require eye protection.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

No, they do. Never shine a laser in someone's eye, regardless the laser power or wavelength.

Edit: Light between 400-1400 nm can enter your lens and damage your fovea. Anything else will begin to cook your eye.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I was able to burn a piece of paper once by taking a laser pointer and using a magnifying glass to focus it onto a black part of the paper.

[–] DaddleDew 4 points 15 hours ago

If you cover it in a glow in the dark material, preferably something that glows bright for a relatively short period of time, people could make drawings on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I’ve seen glasses or caps you can buy that use infrared. I believe some cameras can have a filter to block it though. But add LEDs too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

In my experience, the blue (405nm) lasers pointers can far, far exceed the nominal (5mW?) power.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

In the US the police would shoot on the first laser fired.