Fyi ...

[Red Kittie Kat]

http://www.google.com/logos/laser08.gif


The laser was invented today back in 1960 :)

[DesignVHL]

ha i saw that this morning....i think its neat. I love the google logos...nice surprise in the am to see it changed sometimes...lol as stupid as that may sound.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Let's all be thankful for the invention of lasers. Without them, there wouldn't be funky Pink Floyd-esque light shows, hysterical pet toys or Dr. Evil's special sharks.

[DesignVHL]

lol, well put!

[Silence04]

:D
thank god for lasers, Tool or Pink Floyd wouldn't look like this live:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/316995662_f69fe7de70.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/316995661_e21dbe80a9.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/513059879_bb87f2538b.jpg

[Broacher]

Technically (and we are talking technical, right?), the laser device was predicted by Einstein, and shortly after we got the Maser (microwavable version of the laser) and then the laser.

But even more technically, as in almost everything, nature got there first. We just didn't know it.

http://laserstars.org/history/mars.html

[Red Kittie Kat]

That last link is way over my head Broacher ... so I am just going to sit here and look pretty and look very impressed and say .... ooooh you are sooo smart Mr B.


:D

[garricks]

Let's all be thankful for the invention of lasers. Without them, there wouldn't be funky Pink Floyd-esque light shows, hysterical pet toys or Dr. Evil's special sharks.OR CDs or DVDs...I'm just sayin'…

[Virgo Nightingale]

Ooh, yeah. Them too.

[budafist]

And laser printers. Cheap to run and fast too. Woot! Happy birthday lasers :)

[MikeHun]

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

[frankster]

I used to do research on photodegredation in solid state dye lasers and it involved a lot of flashing green light in darkness. Medical dye lasers use a whole lot of toxic dye in often flamable solutions that need to be continuously pumped. It's difficult to create a solid state solution that can rival the liquid set up though.

[Tea]

I used to do research on photodegredation in solid state dye lasers and it involved a lot of flashing green light in darkness. Medical dye lasers use a whole lot of toxic dye in often flamable solutions that need to be continuously pumped. It's difficult to create a solid state solution that can rival the liquid set up though.

what?:eek:;)

[frankster]

Yeah, not a job for epileptics. It was like being in a bad techno club. We'd put on techno music in the lab when the pulsed laser was going for a laugh every now and again.

[Broacher]

^ Dye lasers are unique in their abilitie to be tuned, right? We run an advanced laser optics program at the school where I work. Cool stuff, neat demos. A lot of industrial strength death beams in there. I once tried to convince them to design/create a micro-death ray unit where anyone who applied for a program info package could go on-line and manipulate a small high powered beam on a toy firing range. Then we'd mail them a souvenir: a small piece of plastic that they've 'graffiti-fried'.

You think those guys would be more open-minded, eh?

[garricks]

Broacher, that's a brilliant idea! Talk about cutting-edge!