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Niko is gonna be pissed that you guys ran off Chuck....

I've basically given up on that fight, as well as my iodine pronunciation crusade. As far as iodine, my argument is thus: look at all the other halogens. Fluorine is pronounced "floor-een", chlorine is "chlor-een", bromine is "bro-meen", why isn't iodine "io-deen"? It should be "io-deen", not...

Wait, you're saying it's a US thing when the origin is put in the 1300s? Am I reading that right? Because there were no Europeans in the Americas until after Columbus, 1492. What am I missing here?

A user named kingstonmeo is selling diodes that will be comfortable at lower powers, but they're actually a little bit more money and more of a pain because they're 3.8mm cans instead of 5.6mm. "Cost" for hobbyists is a weird thing: we only get reasonable costs when the diodes are being used...

Yeah, everything online just picks assuming team defenses, it'll certainly make things more interesting, especially draft planning. I just realized what time the draft is though, hopefully I can still do it at that time on a Friday.:thinking: TBH, non-fans often win just as much as true fans...

I signed up. I've honest-to-goodness never played Fantasy Football, so we'll see how this goes. I'm still reading...but we draft individual defensive players instead of team defenses?

Individuals electrons are moving very slowly, here's an example calculation of the drift velocity: The analogy of marbles pushing through isn't a complete analogy though. The real explanation is that electrons are being accelerated by the applied field, and they accelerate until they hit...

Umm, it IS electrically exciting the gas. It's a plasma, an excited gas by definition. It's ionizing the air, and the light is emitted when electrons return to ground state from excited state. You can get different colors by ionizing different gases. The colors depends on the energy of the...

Wait, the nickel "rusted"? :thinking: Then you got problems.... If the nickel corroded or worn off and somehow there is bare steel exposed, that can certainly rust very easily. I'd get it looked at by a gunsmith, nickel coatings can be replaced. My Beretta 682 receiver was corroding on the...

Ah, a classic question, and I answer it with another question: which color car is the fastest? I personally think red cars are faster than blue cars, what do you guys think? Yellow cars are pretty fast too though. Not a perfect analogy, as color does matter somewhat in some cases for laser...

^Now that's just silly.

Hey Glenn, new questions for you on these group buys: modules! Most interested in: PGL-VI-532, 150mW Also interested in: PGL-H-532, 150mW and 200mW Also interested in: S-GDL-532, 150mW Also interested in: PRL-VI-D, 640nm, 120mW I couldn't find anywhere in this or previous threads that...

100% portable, take it anywhere in the world.

I've seen some studies where they got volunteers who were going to have their eye(s) removed due to other health problems. Since the eye was going to be removed anyway, they did some science before removing it.

US barbeque > Australian barbeque. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you Exhibit A: "Barbeque" is a food, not a tool. You don't "use a barbeque", you eat barbeque, which may or may not have been prepared on a grill.

The "straight answer" is, by necessity, very nuanced. There is no single, magic number. Professionals use the standards available, such as ANSI Z136, to evaluate individual instances of laser use and exposure, since every situation is different. Here is just about the shortest explanation...

Tri-tip is central California's version of "barbeque", it refers to the triangular-shaped piece of meat of the bottom of the sirloin muscle of a cow, so right below where sirloin steaks come from. "Barbeque" is defined differently everywhere in the US, it's extremely regional. In central...

Re: WTB: 12X Sony BDR-205 Diode or Sled (or equivalent) Care to make an offer for a diode in an Aixiz housing (or removed if you want), with a 405-G-1 lens?

Getting more macro shots linked together... http://laserpointerforums.com/f65/dave-mean-his-diodes-445-macros-image-heavy-54033.html :thinking:

There are a couple of ways to do it with the sense resistors: use a shunt for the sense resistor and a simple SPST switch to active the shunt path, or use your switch and have 2 different sense resistance values, one on each path of the switch. Not as familiar with the Microboost, but the LM317...