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.Scott replied to the thread Undergrad Question about increasing laser power.If I catch the spirit of you question, you will be gratified to discover that one can design a laser that will continue to operate as it...
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.Scott reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Question about increasing laser power with
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He didn't say the mirrors, he said "the ionized gas, crystal, or semiconductor" that's pumping energy into the beam. No real mirror is... -
.Scott reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread Undergrad Question about increasing laser power with Like.
The answers above are correct. Just adding a safety note: any laser above ~500 mW (Class 4) requires proper eye protection, not just...
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.Scott replied to the thread Undergrad Question about increasing laser power.There are two kinds of lasers, continuous wave (CW) and pulse. Since you're thinking of CW, that is what I will address. Most CW...
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.Scott replied to the thread About Snapping Turtles.My backyard has "frontage" to a swamp - where there are many Common Snapping turtles. That's where I canoed past the really big one...
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I never gave much thought about the species range of snapping turtle until I read this article - about a snapper found a few miles north...
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.Scott replied to the thread Cone‑like layered structure in 2D FFT.I do not understand what you are doing. I have taken many 2D DFT of images - there is nothing inherently "temporal" about the process...
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.Scott replied to the thread Optical ATARS system.You would need to contact the manufacturer to get an authoritative answer. But I would guess it is micro-OLED technology. Micro-OLED...
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.Scott replied to the thread Optical ATARS system.And, as you can tell from the image in @berkeman's post, this is the helmet that Darth Vader will be upgrading to.
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.Scott replied to the thread Optical ATARS system.That level of brightness would refer to the helmet display - where supplemental information needs to be visible even against direct...
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.Scott replied to the thread Do you 'see' the CMB map as a 3D glass sphere/ellipsoid?.It's easy for me to imagine that green/yellow/red is foreground facing "out" and the light/dark blues are a view of the background...
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.Scott replied to the thread Meteor (May 30) over New Hampshire and Massachusetts.I never heard it, but it's in my part of the world. They tracked its splash down spot to a fairly precise location in Cape Cod bay...
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.Scott replied to the thread Weight distribution on a surface.I'm not sure about all of your measurements. The width of an 80" TV screen is about 177cm. But overall, as long as the TV and stand...
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.Scott reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Seeing the word hypercholesterolemia I thought Americans (sorry) with Like.
I apologize because I realize that the obesity epidemic isn't limited to the US. Processed food like McD etc is found everywhere in the...
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.Scott replied to the thread Seeing the word hypercholesterolemia I thought Americans (sorry).I think an honorable "etc" mention in your "like McD etc" has to be The Heart Attack Grill. They likely have an antidote for anything...
