Skye Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 I thought swansont, Klaynos and others would enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 I'd not actually noticed that... http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/284158_townes.html Is supposed to be the story of the first laser but it wont load for me atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Yes and no. Cute. But geek pedantry gets in the way. If you can see laser beams from the side, your air isn't being filtered well enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Yes and no. Cute. But geek pedantry gets in the way. If you can see laser beams from the side, your air isn't being filtered well enough. I resisted the erge to say something like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bascule Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Cute. But geek pedantry gets in the way. If you can see laser beams from the side, your air isn't being filtered well enough. Having gone to Laser Floyd many times, I can certainly attest to the problem of visible laser beams being thoroughly solved with fog machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Having gone to Laser Floyd many times, I can certainly attest to the problem of visible laser beams being thoroughly solved with fog machines. Pink lasers, one would presume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 No, the elephants were pink. The lasers were green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doG Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Having gone to Laser Floyd many times, I can certainly attest to the problem of visible laser beams being thoroughly solved with fog machines. Do you mean "invisible" laser beams being solved with fog machines? If the beams were visible it would seem an air filter would have been a better solution than a fog machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a Clown Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Google have cool logos on holidays when I was a little younger I would save them into a folder because I was bored... I had quite a lot... They were original though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bascule Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Do you mean "invisible" laser beams being solved with fog machines? If the beams were visible it would seem an air filter would have been a better solution than a fog machine. Perhaps "making laser beams visible" is a better phraseology. That said, laser Floyd rules, and laser beams rock a billion times more when they're visible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 It's not a good thing to have your beams visible though, it's really bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doG Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 It's not a good thing to have your beams visible though, it's really bad! Why's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 You lose intensity, and collimation in the beam if there's allot of scattering events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doG Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 But you might want scattering events when they're used for a light show or something similar so sometimes visible is a good thing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 /me points to scienceforums.net But yeah light shows... That's why you want cloudy nights.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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