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Hello LPF, it's been a bit since I started a thread. I want to show you guys something I've known about our money here for a while, but I thought it had been shared before. I guess not!
Our polymer plastic bills here are pretty neat:
Aside from being rainbow, waterproof, holographic, and yes, smelling slightly of maple, it's got one feature I'm really intrigued by. Lemme just grab a bill from my 'massive' stack of Queen Elizabeth's...
I'm just kidding, that wasn't very nice. So you see that little maple leaf above the 20, to the left of Your Majesty's hair? Well, not only does it smell more strongly of maple than the rest, but look at what happens when you shine a red laser through it:
It projects the value of the note onto the wall! Cool, huh? It's not just with the 20's though, it works with other bills too, like $50's:
$5's:
$10s and $100s too, but I don't have a hundred near me.
It works slightly well with yellow lasers, but mine is a bit too dim to look well ($20):
With green lasers, it gets more blurry:
And for good measure, here's blue which is not readable at all:
So the shorter the wavelength, the sharper the image. Interesting. Now I'm sure this wasn't designed this way with lasers in mind, it was actually designed I guess to be viewed through, looking at a small bright light source:
It looks much better to the eye rather than the camera
That's it, felt like I should share. Thanks for reading everybody!
Our polymer plastic bills here are pretty neat:
Aside from being rainbow, waterproof, holographic, and yes, smelling slightly of maple, it's got one feature I'm really intrigued by. Lemme just grab a bill from my 'massive' stack of Queen Elizabeth's...
I'm just kidding, that wasn't very nice. So you see that little maple leaf above the 20, to the left of Your Majesty's hair? Well, not only does it smell more strongly of maple than the rest, but look at what happens when you shine a red laser through it:
It projects the value of the note onto the wall! Cool, huh? It's not just with the 20's though, it works with other bills too, like $50's:
$5's:
$10s and $100s too, but I don't have a hundred near me.
It works slightly well with yellow lasers, but mine is a bit too dim to look well ($20):
With green lasers, it gets more blurry:
And for good measure, here's blue which is not readable at all:
So the shorter the wavelength, the sharper the image. Interesting. Now I'm sure this wasn't designed this way with lasers in mind, it was actually designed I guess to be viewed through, looking at a small bright light source:
It looks much better to the eye rather than the camera
That's it, felt like I should share. Thanks for reading everybody!
