Comments on: Fzat! http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:26:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Argon http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1455 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:36:51 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1455 Some questionably cheap high powered green lasers can be found here dealextreme.com caution when looking there though as it's full of things to buy on impulse, and usually you didn't really want the item anyway... Some questionably cheap high powered green lasers can be found here dealextreme.com caution when looking there though as it's full of things to buy on impulse, and usually you didn't really want the item anyway...

]]> by: xuth http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1454 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:31:07 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1454 Alan... Typically something like this would be done with an ellipsoidal section. Put an unfocused radiation source at one of the focal points and the tumour at the other and blast away. Something like <a href="http://xkcd.com/316/" rel="nofollow">this</a> (xkcd.com). Alan... Typically something like this would be done with an ellipsoidal section. Put an unfocused radiation source at one of the focal points and the tumour at the other and blast away. Something like this (xkcd.com).

]]> by: Alan http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1452 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:10:32 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1452 This makes me think of radiation therapy for cancer. These days, they use a lower power source- and bombard tumours from mutiple angles. The surrounding healthy tissue gets a lower dose. So if you can do this with 1x 350mW laser, could you also do it with 2x 150mW? 3x 100mW ? It would take a while to set up, but the resulting video could be interesting. Educational, even. This makes me think of radiation therapy for cancer. These days, they use a lower power source- and bombard tumours from mutiple angles. The surrounding healthy tissue gets a lower dose.

So if you can do this with 1x 350mW laser, could you also do it with 2x 150mW? 3x 100mW ?

It would take a while to set up, but the resulting video could be interesting. Educational, even.

]]> by: Stark http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1449 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:57:21 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1449 Mmmm... nice. I'd love a nice high-power laser, but alas I do not have the resources (and insane freebies) of a professional toy reviewer! I had an opportunity to see a 40W xenon-ion laser in action at a local University a couple of years back. Not exactly a hand-held item but... wow! Impressive to say the least. Dangerous as all get out... but impressive. They had a warning sign on the wall with a picture of the hand of a grad student who apprently decided to mess with something along the beam path while the laser was firing. T'wasnt a pretty picture. Mmmm... nice. I'd love a nice high-power laser, but alas I do not have the resources (and insane freebies) of a professional toy reviewer! I had an opportunity to see a 40W xenon-ion laser in action at a local University a couple of years back. Not exactly a hand-held item but... wow! Impressive to say the least. Dangerous as all get out... but impressive. They had a warning sign on the wall with a picture of the hand of a grad student who apprently decided to mess with something along the beam path while the laser was firing. T'wasnt a pretty picture.

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1448 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:14:52 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1448 It's a 350mW. It's a 350mW.

]]> by: Stark http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1447 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:41:08 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1447 Sooo... is this the piddly little 300mW or the somewhat frightening 500mW model? (OK, both are kinda scary - blindness is instant if the beam catches you in the eye for either of those) Sooo... is this the piddly little 300mW or the somewhat frightening 500mW model? (OK, both are kinda scary - blindness is instant if the beam catches you in the eye for either of those)

]]> by: Popup http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1446 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:18:26 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/fzat/#comment-1446 Oohhhhh! Wicked! Oohhhhh! Wicked!

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