Stupid kid with 800 "megawatt" laser

[PhysX]

He really needs glasses... Look at this video, he actually did make the tape burn at that distance, which means it's got to be somewhat powerful. He is just sitting there staring at it....

YouTube - 800MW green laser cuts black tape 10 ft

 

[wbp]

Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
has a giga-watt laser for measuring/ranging the distance to the moon.
Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lunar Laser Ranging experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)

Hey, thanks for posting that! Did you read through it? They get on average 1 photon back for each laser pulse, up from 0.01/pulse at other locations. How cool is that? Catching a single photon reflected from the Moon...

William

 

[Gryphon]

Probably ~60mW of unfiltered light coming out of that thing, it took forever to light that match, not to mention it was lying on the table so his parents wont be too happy when they see the burn mark :shhh:

 

[spokanedavid]

Well my first thought was the cni warning website
Laser safety information

I always remember RULE # 1

 

[jakeGT]

He said on his wicked laser arctic clip that is has 1 gigawatt hahaha...

 

[Vega]

who goes to the wickedlasers forum anyways?lol

 

[CrossOut]

aw man.. hes making Asians look bad x_X for the record im a physics major with proper training on how to operate high powered lasers.. just to clear up any confusion.

 

[BlueToast]

Poor kid. Someone should show him the product page on WL's website where it says "1 Watt" and not "1 GigaWatt"

 

[johnphall]

Wow! I wonder if there was any damage....?

 

[weeba2kv]

I can't belive that this is still not deleted lol or locked