To cool the particle down, researchers used a laser beam.
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VICE: What happens when a laser beam hits an airplane?
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Those spacecraft would have sails to catch the laser beam.
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This is accomplished using a microwave laser beam (a "maser").
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You need a laser-beam focus on what you want to create.
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The detector shoots out a laser beam and splits it in two.
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A laser beam flows between twin prongs of the torpedo-shaped imager.
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The detector shoots out a laser beam and splits it in two.
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The laser beam, made of infrared light, was invisible to the human eye.
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Gravitational-wave detectors work (see diagram) by splitting a laser beam in twain.
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The red peaks dancing across the screen represent insects crossing the laser beam.
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They rode in pickup trucks, outfitted with infrared cameras and laser-beam scanners.
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Both are marked with a blue dot not unlike a sniper's laser beam.
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Using a laser beam, the team measured the depth at about 450 feet.
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I mean, really let the puzzle have it with those laser beam eyes.
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During the experiments, a laser beam is split equally between the two arms.
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During the experiments, a laser beam is equally split between the two arms.
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"After the whole Kavanaugh experience, I am focused like a laser beam — and I hope all of the women and others who came forward to share their accounts with us, that they're focused like a laser beam — on the elections," Sen.
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But the Lópezes focused like a laser beam on Bob's comparatively weaker backhand return.
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Aiming a laser beam at an aircraft in the US is a federal crime.
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The near-castration with the laser beam or the gangster compacted in his Continental?
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Each sensor contains a gas of rubidium atoms with properties aligned by a laser beam.
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A laser beam has the potential to burn a pilot's cornea and cause serious injury.
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It's a focused laser beam of energy guaranteed to annihilate any room it's played in.
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At its heart is a laser beam pointed at a tiny crystal surrounded by mirrors.
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Also if you have laser beam eyes you can probably make out the SAMO©.
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But the essence is simple—take a short-duration laser beam and make it last longer.
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But its essence is simple—take a short-duration laser beam and make it last longer.
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We know you don't like it, but we're going focus like a laser beam on violations.
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Cubiio uses two electrically-controlled mirrors to guide the direction and movement of the laser beam.
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Then they zapped a laser beam at the smoke behind the bats to illuminate its particles.
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Unlike in Star Wars, the laser beam doesn't hit its mark like a conventional bullet does.
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At under 150 pages, "Whitewalling" is a laser beam of a book, unwavering and on target.
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The "voice" commands carried on that laser beam, the researchers point out, would be entirely silent.
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A laser beam focus on advancing his policies on trade, tax reform, immigration and infrastructure will.
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In October 2013, a moon-orbiting NASA spacecraft aimed a laser beam at Earth, 239,000 miles away.
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"This time, we decided to widen the laser beam to make the experiment more feasible," Sasaki says.
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A weapon that fires a destructive laser beam has been a dream of military researchers for decades.
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It employs a laser beam to scan an area and then analyses the reflections that bounce back.
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Using the controllers, I could point a laser-beam-like target at whatever I wanted to launch.
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But Luckey had an idea: Sync a laser beam to a virtual shutter, similar to flash photography.
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Outside of work, I love spoiling my two cats, Vivienne and Laser Beam, with high-tech things.
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As a hardcore karaokephile, nothing can keep me out of that darkly lit, laser beam-filled room.
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The laser beam stimulated any fluorescent protein it hit to light up, indicating the location of a mine.
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"Every sentence was a new laser beam," said one Republican strategist with ties to leadership of Trump's statement.
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Here's how it works: A red laser beam scans for bacteria that might be laying siege to perishables.
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The scientists created an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate by trapping 8,000 rubidium atoms in a focused laser beam.
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Lidar involves shooting a laser beam between two points–in this case, between the hut and the tree.
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But there was another type of visual that was starting to come into its own: The laser beam.
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According to reports, a laser beam was aimed at the cockpit and made the first officer feel unwell.
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They're planning to shrink the size of the laser beam so that more of it goes in the telescope.
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Bright red fruit flavors and a laser beam of stony minerality give this wine energy and clarity of flavor.
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The laser beam also can cause potential harm to humans, pets or other objects that come into its path.
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The idea is to shine a high-quality laser beam through one of the optical fibres in the cable.
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RoboFly flies freely, thanks to a photovoltaic cell on its body that converts energy from a narrow laser beam.
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In theory, it is possible to move an object like a CubeSat by nudging it with a laser beam.
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If the Porsche was a precise laser beam, the way I was driving it, the Aston was a jackhammer.
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One is laser tweezers, which allow scientists to manipulate microscopic particles (often viruses and bacteria) within a laser beam.
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Hirono, speaking on ABC's "This Week," said, "I'm focused like a laser beam on the elections" when asked about impeachment.
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"Asteroids Attack" sees you move your face around to navigate a space ship, avoiding rocks and grabbing laser beam powerups.
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Eye trackers developed for spaceflight are now being used in corrective laser eye surgery to ensure correct laser beam positioning.
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Schools that put students first, and have a laser beam focus on producing college and career-ready citizens should be rewarded.
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"It's a green laser beam that shoots out — only green lights work in scaring them, red and blue don't," says Marcus.
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Jarrod Dyson walked to lead off the game, and Cano hit a 21-foot laser beam into the center-field seats.
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Other moments were experimentally impressive, like shining a laser beam through antimatter, but don't have the same oomph as colliding black holes.
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On Sunday, a New York-bound Virgin Airways flight returned to Heathrow Airport after a laser beam was shined into the cockpit.
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A constant laser beam on the diamonds could crack them, so Meng's method instead used short laser pulses to heat the sample.
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Instead, the noise comes from the equipment that generates the laser light or the interaction between a laser beam and an object.
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A red laser beam shoots out, hitting its mark on the Bluetooth-connected platform where the mirror's designated owner is to stand.
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His primary laser beam attack is pretty powerful, but the main draw is his status as a time-traveling bounty hunter orange.
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The entangled particles were generated on board the satellite and then delivered to two different ground systems using a split laser beam.
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Similarly, when matter is struck with an intense enough laser beam, you get a light harmonic, which is a nonlinear optical effect.
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A powerful infrared laser beam shot out of one of the cubes, striking an array of photovoltaic cells inside the opposite cube.
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LONDON — A Virgin Atlantic flight bound for New York from London turned around after a laser beam incident, police confirmed Monday morning.
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Firing an optical laser beam into a water droplet instead has the effect of focusing the beam into a single point, or hotspot.
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And you can switch out the design by popping off the top, so both Laser Beam and Vivienne get play on my phone.
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Depending on the reflective qualities of a surface, a lidar receiver may or may not receive the reflection of a fired laser beam.
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The end result is a sudden burst of coherent light—the laser beam—as all the atoms discharge in a rapid chain reaction.
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Special mirrors split the laser beam in two, sent the pieces through either wing of the tunnel, and reunited them onto a detector.
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The photons came out of an ultraviolet laser beam, then passed through a special crystal known to entangle the phase of some photons.
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A laser beam helps the device detect bends in the cantilever, allowing it to take images of the material's topography on the nanoscale.
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The sheer optimism and projection of will that emits out from the player into these finely honed worlds is like a laser beam.
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This is caused by something called total internal reflection, which allowed the laser beam to reflect off the interface between air and water.
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Multiple returns per pulse: When the Honeycomb sends out a pulse of light, it doesn't just see the first object the laser beam touches.
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For example, with the Gathering game, when apples were in plentiful supply, the agents didn't really bother zapping one another with the laser beam.
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When it detects a louse, the bot zaps it with a surgical diode laser beam, the kind used for eye surgery and hair removal.
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The device sits atop a tripod, about 12 to 15 feet off the ground, and shoots a laser beam within a pre-programmed area.
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In one case, they said, they opened a garage door by shining a laser beam at a voice assistant that was connected to it.
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NASA isn't simply replacing the old satellite, which measured the elevation of the Earth's ice with a single laser beam; it's also upgrading it.
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One major challenge was simply getting the bead to stay levitated inside the laser beam, says physicist Uroš Delić of the University of Vienna.
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The interior ring will be cylindrically cut out for the desired smoothness using a micrometer thick water jet inside which a laser beam is cast.
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When insects fly through the laser beam, reflections bounce back at the device from their beating wings, and they're picked up by the second telescope.
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So he and his fellow students developed a device that can move a laser beam across a target area, like a field, at regular intervals.
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Vapor pressures from the collision between metal and an electron laser beam force the metal to melt into this shape, creating a sort of hook.
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One was laser whitening, in which a laser beam activates a chemical bleaching agent applied to the teeth; Dr. Smigel helped develop and popularize it.
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The old satellite measured the elevation of the Earth's ice with a single laser beam; the new gizmo has six, firing 10,000 times a second.
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In once case, they were able to open a garage door by shining a laser beam at a voice assistant that was connected to it.
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Hitting and destroying a flying nuclear warhead with a warhead or a laser beam is a technological feat that we cannot accomplish reliably and cheaply.
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A laser beam shot from one of four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, one of the largest in the world.
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It's all a bit like riling up the cops in a GTA game, only with tiny drones dispensing red-hot-laser-beam bursts of justice.
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The research group found they could temporarily duplicate the frequency of the strontium in a maser (a laser beam made of microwaves instead of light).
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This is done by heterodyning, a process which combines the light in the coupler with a minute laser beam, strengthening the signal at the desired wavelength.
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Usually, the roots and ends of the hair are kept the same color in order to lock in the prism, further emphasizing the colorful laser beam.
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Each experiment consists of a laser beam split in two, sent down four kilometer (2.5 mile) long perpendicular pipes that bounce off mirrors and meet again.
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Essentially, LIGO's two observatories detect gravitational waves by splitting a laser beam, sending it down several kilometer-long tunnels, and merging the light waves together again.
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It's also housing a hidden, underground lab where a horde of Russian scientists are using a giant laser beam to bust back into the Upside Down.
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The device traps a tiny opaque particle in mid-air using an invisible laser beam, then moves the beam around a preset path in free space.
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I'm forced to fight my way through a pair of sentinel drones and a robotic dog that shoots a bright red laser beam from its head.
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Hacking into one smart speaker at a time with a laser beam doesn&apost really qualify as something that&aposs easily scalable, Gartner&aposs Reynolds said.
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In each machine a microscopic fleck of molten tin is dropped in front of a laser beam powerful enough to cut metal 50m times a second.
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There are lots of angry women out there, and I'm encouraging them to stay angry, but determined, and focus like a laser beam on the elections.
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The instrument can decipher the chemical makeup of target rocks by gathering data on the types of light the rocks emit when hit with the laser beam.
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Shining a laser beam toward a planet whose inhabitants might see the Earth pass in front of the sun could replace the light the Earth blocks out.
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We were outfitted with nonlethal and lethal weapons, including a Taser and handgun (unloaded, shooting a laser beam), taking turns reacting to characters on a giant screen.
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A spacecraft could use these objects to juice up a laser beam that could then accelerate it to relativistic speeds (meaning close to the speed of light).
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Ovechkin gets open, you scream at your TV that he's open, he somehow stays open, and then it's a one-timer laser beam into the top corner.
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My computer alerts me to a nearby space anomaly, a spherical structure that looks a bit like a miniature Death Star, sans the planet-destroying laser beam.
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Dr. Ashkin invented "optical tweezers," which use the pressure from a highly focused laser beam to manipulate microscopic objects, including living organisms such as viruses and bacteria.
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I have 90 seconds to punch as many buttons as I can, deactivating them, without hitting a laser beam, which deducts 5 seconds from the running clock.
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The end result uses a laser beam to burn a tiny hole in an egg shell, after which air pressure is used to extract a drop of fluid.
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Typically, a lidar employs revolving mirrors to direct its laser beam, which is usually in the invisible near-infrared part of the spectrum, rather than the visible part.
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The mirror is connected to actuators that use electrical resonance to make it oscillate from side to side, changing the direction of the laser beam it is reflecting.
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The incident on Sunday followed another at Heathrow in February, when a New York-bound plane was forced to return to the airport after a "laser beam incident".
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This tattoo generates heat and a laser beam then controls the locust remotely by heating up the wing to move it closer or further away from an area.
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Send out a pulsed laser beam, and the time it takes the light to bounce back and its wavelength can help create accurate 3D maps of an environment.
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A simple laser beam could disrupt aliens' observations of Earth, making it look like there's nobody home on the third rock from the sun, a new study suggests.
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But in this paper, the researchers also developed a new method, where the laser first passes into a quickly spinning mirror, which essentially spreads the laser beam out.
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It said it was working with authorities to identify the source of the laser beam, which media reports said had been shone into the cockpit from the ground.
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And then the spotlight will settle like a laser beam on Mickelson, who played his first major as a pro at the 1992 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
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The LIGO stations are the most precise measuring devices ever built, using mirrors to bounce a laser beam down an L-shaped system 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) long.
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When one of them hops Adam Levine's fence, he just zaps him into oblivion with a laser beam from his poolside recliner before taking a swig of whiskey.
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These detectors consist of a laser beam split down each pipe's length, bouncing off mirrors and returning to a single spot where their light waves cancel each other out.
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You might as well write an article about the ramifications of all squirrels gaining laser beam eyes or the Moon really being an egg for a giant space butterfly.
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Then it floats softly enough for Criscuolo to be able to one-time the puck before it ever hits the ice again, and he fires a laser beam on goal.
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The Oilers thought they tied the game at 6:39 of the first when left winger Taylor Hall's laser beam of a wrist shot went off the post and in.
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In the future, scientists from Neuralink hope to use a laser beam to get through the skull, rather than drilling holes, they said in interviews with The New York Times.
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They have the option of "tagging" the other player with a laser beam, temporarily removing them from the game, and giving the first player a chance to collect more apples.
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Now, to be clear, that's how every highlighter works: It looks unremarkable until it catches the light, and then suddenly it's like a laser beam is shooting off your cheekbones.
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Because my vision had collapsed into a kaleidoscope lens, it took a moment to distinguish the blood on my shirt from the red laser beam projecting from his infrared pistol.
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In one room of the 19th Century Moscow town house where it has its research center, a laser beam is refracted through lenses, creating the holograms car drivers will see.
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Then they shine a weak laser beam through the supercooled atomic cloud, so that only a few photons pass through to be measured on the other side of the apparatus.
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This week was the anniversary of one of my favorite goals in NHL history: Steve Yzerman's double-OT laser beam to beat the Blues in Game 7 back in 1996.
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And the laser beam, instead of remaining a straight line, bounced off the surface angle of the water spouting out of the bottle, creating a contained, liquid ray of light.
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At one end, researchers encoded messages by modulating the phase of a green laser beam, which was fired 143 km to a white wall within the Teide Observatory on Tenerife.
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But the process is a little more complicated than simply firing an electron laser beam (a narrow stream of electrons, rather than photons) at a pipe to see what happens.
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It also kind of sounds like a dance party, what with the rhythm section riffing on a drum 'n' bass pattern and doofy laser-beam synths zooming every which way.
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In this analogy, the game's ghosts represent all manner of cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes, cancer cells, and, in this case, fat cells that have been subjected to laser beam fuckery.
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The gun, a laser beam-like solar-powered trace rifle, shipped apparently with a game-breaking bug that makes it the most powerful weapon in the game by a long shot.
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"What we've done is created a device that automatically moves that laser beam across a specified target area—in this case, your field—at regular intervals all night long," he explained.
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Trump focused on Bush like a laser beam, calling him "low-energy," making fun of his family's efforts to help him, and basically calling Bush's brother, the former president, a traitor.
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Earlier in the day, it emerged that a laser beam was pointed at his plane as he landed in Mexico City last week, though there was no harm to those aboard.
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Last month, Election Day 2017 saw political pundits keep an almost laser-beam like focus on the race for Virginia governor, declaring the Democratic upset a referendum on President Donald Trump.
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To his amazement, the play of forces within the laser beam actually drew the ball into the center of the beam and trapped it there — a first step toward optical tweezers.
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Of the energy released, some 5.3 × 1047 joules was radiated away as gravitational waves—enough to warp a laser beam on Earth by about one-thousandth the width of a single proton.
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According to Afzal, the Lockheed Martin team created a laser beam that was near "diffraction limited," meaning it was close to the maximum limit for focusing energy toward a single, small spot.
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Each sphere is lit up by a very specific spatial laser beam that is shot directly onto each bulb, allowing the artist to create animated endpoints for the normally infinite laser beams.
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InsideJapanese artist, Ryoichi Kurokawa's Node 5:5 audiovisual installation, a hair-raisingly sharp sound screeches into the space, and seconds later, a bright red laser beam sparks its way through the room.
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The second is a technology that led to the rapid increase of laser beam intensity, which has allowed for myriad laser-based tools, including the beams commonly used in laser eye surgery.
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This is a case of author and substance and story and style all lining up; a series of lenses perfectly arranged to focus the power and precision of Stephenson's laser-beam intellect.
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They were deprived of water to drink, placed in a cell with a toilet that wouldn't flush, and exposed to laser beam lighting that caused excruciating headaches, dizziness, hallucinations and muscle spasms.
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"It's more like planning with a precise laser beam than a floodlight, where you're making an assumption about an entire community," said Jacki Lenners, spokeswoman for the Northern Arizona Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority.
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The Nobel committee chose to focus on the familiar example of eye surgery, in which a laser beam is used to sculpt the surface of the eye in order to correct short-sightedness.
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LIGO works by splitting a laser beam in two and sending the daughter beams up and down a pair of tunnels, each 4km long, which are set at right angles to each other.
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And, though SurfaceSight's laser beam cannot recognise particular people, it can be trained to sense how many of them are standing beside the surface it sits on—and which way they are facing.
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The plate itself is 17.5cm in diameter, but less than 2mm thick, and has recently been examined by scanning with a laser beam, by Mark Williams of the University of Warwick, in Britain.
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Amid a swirling black and blue laser beam projection, precise lines of light traced through the vapors along the soles and heels of the shoes to create a glow-in-the-dark effect.
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As with Bill Clinton, who declared himself focused like a laser beam on the nation's business while Republicans impeached him in 1998, Trump might have benefited from looking presidential among other global leaders.
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Each walker used a digital version of LIDAR to assess the terrain immediately in front of it, which is why (in the videos) they appear to shoot a thin laser beam at regular intervals.
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Gamers, in particular, covet higher refresh rates (and the accompanying frame rate) because it means they see more of the game and are less likely to miss a key punch or flying laser beam.
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When I asked if heating my paunch with a laser beam would be, in her opinion, more or less painful than having chilled into a high-calorie slushie, Rebecca gives a fairly slippery answer.
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LIGO works by splitting a laser beam in two and sending the daughter beams up and down a pair of tunnels, each four kilometres long, which are set at right angles to each other.
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That used to be really easy for me to do, but as things have changed, the straight-ahead laser-beam, like the check-to-check—I can't necessarily write the check-to-check now.
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The aerospace and defense firm claimed in a press release Thursday that in testing earlier this month the laser beam system achieved a 58kW blast, a world record for a laser of this type.
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"Once she decided to be in the student movement, and then they won the election and it was taken from her, her mind went like a laser beam to getting into power," Williams said.
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Bannon could be a tremendous positive outside force for change this fall and next spring, focusing like a laser beam on shaping the message and putting pressure on lawmakers to pass the president's agenda.
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Laser beams are pulsed in the perpendicular legs and then LIGO scientists measure the time it takes for the laser beam to hit one end of a tunnel leg and return to its starting point.
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The laser beam from just inside the blue line near the wall eluded goaltender Jonathan Quick, whose view of the shot was likely blocked when Jets right winger Nikolaj Ehlers cruised in front of him.
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"And I said to the women who are justifiably angry, but determined, and I said they should be just focused like a laser beam on the elections, because they have connected the dots," she continued.
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With Snakes & Ladders, for example, you and your competitors move the pieces along a moving digital representation of the game board, while Laser involves positioning mirrors to reflect your laser beam into destroying incoming asteroids.
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The other work in the installation consists of a taxidermied macaw, hanging upside down, and a green laser beam that races across the wall to the macaw's left eye and back to its starting point.
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That means that operators need to know where each satellite is in relation to the other with great accuracy, and the satellites' laser terminals need to be able to target the laser beam with great precision.
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Click here to view original GIFThis immersive laser beam installation seems like the perfect place to pop a pill, stare at some lights, cleanse yourself from sin, and, like, maybe even just leave your soul behind.
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The credits scene shows Manta and Shin making a pact: Shin will help Manta find out Aquaman's true identity and repair Manta's laser beam-firing helmet and Manta will reveal the secret of Atlantis to him.
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For example, researchers recently demonstrated that they could activate voice assistants such as Amazon&aposs Alexa and Apple&aposs Siri by focusing a laser beam at the microphones built into the devices on which they operated.
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By shooting a laser beam down the length of each tunnel and timing how long it took for each to be reflected off a mirror at the far end, the experimenters could precisely measure the tunnels' length.
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That process creates "an almost continuous X-ray laser beam with pulses that are 10,000 times brighter, on average, than those of [the original laser] and arrive up to a million times per second," according to SLAC.
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Due to the way light spreads as it travels—called diffraction—the laser beam would spread to encompass entire solar systems after journeying many light years across space, bathing that distant planetary system within the cloaking beam.
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As for how that spacecraft is going to get there, that's where things get even wilder: the light from a giant laser beam is meant to propel the spacecraft forward at one-fifth the speed of light.
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If a gravitational wave passes through those tubes, however, and if the waves are big enough, your mirror is reflective enough, and your light beam fast enough, you'll notice that the laser beam will get slightly longer.
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In the 1980s, he led a team at Bell Labs that realized that tiny micrometer-size spheres would be drawn into the center of a laser beam (not so unlike the tractor beams of science fiction stories).
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And researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan have now shown that they can interact with voice assistants in both smart speakers and phones from a distance using a laser beam pointed at their microphones.
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Bloomberg's sudden surge into the cluttered race put every candidate on high alert, but it was Warren who roasted the billionaire with laser-beam precision, calling him out for his alleged sexual harassment and behavior toward women.
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My second fight in Furi was against a woman whose head had been replaced by a laser beam, design courtesy of Takashi Okazaki (of Afro Samurai fame), whose art is responsible for much of the game's distinct style.
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Each ion is a singular qubit, and researchers trap them with special tiny silicon ion traps and then use lasers to run algorithms by varying the times and intensities at which each tiny laser beam hits the qubits.
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I'm not entirely sure how they will preserve it, but I like to imagine a USB of mp3s will be kept in a gold plated refrigerator, protected by laser beam mounted sharks, with attempted theft punishable by death.
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But the transit of electrons through a silicon wafer, known as a homostructure because it consists of one material, proved ineffective at releasing photons, whose energy can be converted to light in the form of a laser beam.
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Where pressing "right" on a Dreamcast controller would have seen Ulala take a simple step in that direction, in VR, you often feel like you're dodging a laser beam that would otherwise have connected directly with your head.
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Then came the fifth, and a two-out walk followed by a fastball to Machado that became a laser beam into the left-field stands, a three-run homer that turned an easy game into a nail-biter.
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She's got a decent pool of health, but she also has a powerful particle cannon with two modes of fire: a short-range, high-damage laser beam and an arcing grenade that does moderate area damage wherever it lands.
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After decades of dedicated searches, scientists finally announced in 2016 that they had spotted the ripples created from a pair of colliding black holes using two several-kilometer-long, L-shaped tunnels, each with a laser beam passing through.
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A gigawatt laser beam—1GW being a billion watts, roughly the power output of a large nuclear plant—provides a bit less than seven newtons of thrust: a force equivalent to that required to lift a glass of beer.
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To do it, they had to overcome a three-games-to-one deficit against another luckless franchise, the Cleveland Indians, and a final body blow from Rajai Davis, who tied Game 2348 with a laser-beam homer in the eighth inning.
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From the first scene, when we see a group of children being creepily herded to their psychic laser beam-launchers with absolutely no context, The Dark Tower has a rushed, middle-of-the-battle feel that it never fully loses.
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LIGO is what we call an interferometer, consisting of two four kilometer "arms" set at right angles to each other, protected by concrete tubes, and a laser beam which is shone and reflected back and forth by mirrors at each end.
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It works by splitting a laser beam in two, sending the halves to and fro along paths identical in length but set at right angles to one another, and then looking for interference patterns when the halves are recombined (see diagram).
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Petcube Play comes with a laser-pointer game that seemed promising, although we were initially concerned about the long list of warnings that accompanied it, cautioning us to avoid "prolonged direct eye contact with the laser beam," among other things.
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Relying on funding from UW, they created RoboFly, a robo-insect powered by an invisible laser beam that is pointed at a photovoltaic cell, which is attached above the robot and converts the laser light into enough electricity to operate its wings.
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But the fact it happened at all -- that someone would point a laser beam at a large commercial airliner potentially carrying hundreds of people, whether or not one of the most world's renowned religious figure was on it -- is hardly a surprise.
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In addition to red, yellow and blue LED lights on the pavement, "smombies" - smartphone zombies - will be warned by laser beam projected from power poles and an alert sent to the phones by an app that they are about to step into traffic.
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A conventional hologram is made by splitting a laser beam in two, scanning one of the half beams over the object to be holographed, recombining the half beams and then capturing an image created by the recombined beams on a photographic film.
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Then we see him get an under-the-table weapons upgrade from King Orm, who believes he can use Manta to do his dirty work and dispatch Aquaman — Manta uses his new weaponry to fashion a laser beam-firing helmet for himself.
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The larger rig, named Cyclops, weighs 4.5 tons and if you run it twenty-five feet down a track, then back to its first position, "the accuracy from one end to the other is half a laser beam wide," according to fxguide.
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Relying on funding from UW, last May they unveiled RoboFly, a robo-insect powered by an invisible laser beam that is pointed at a photovoltaic cell, which is attached above the robot and converts the laser light into enough electricity to operate its wings.
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Recently, a throwback picture of Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio surfaced on the internet, but instead of the focus being — and staying — on that adorable, mini, blond version of DiCaprio, some internet bullies commenters chose to laser-beam their attention on his mom Irmelin's armpit hair.
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"Our point right now is to stay focused like a laser beam on the defeat of ISIS and to let nothing distract us," Mr. Mattis told reporters, using an acronym for the Islamic State, shortly before flying to Erbil, the capital of the autonomous region.
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A team of researchers has shown that the voice assistants inside smart speakers and smartphones can be fooled into opening garage doors or starting cars by using the oscillations of a laser beam pointed at the devices&apos microphones to simulate their owners speaking commands.
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" As a young man in the 1960s, the filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, of "RoboCop" and "Showgirls" fame, wandered into a Pentecostal church and suddenly felt "the Holy Ghost descending … as if a laser beam was cutting through my head and my heart was on fire.
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At a festival increasingly marked by brand partners' blockbuster efforts to book obvious draws like Young Thug or Jamie xx to their stages to capture a laser beam of attention in a noisy and crowded field, the curatorial focus of SXSW can get a bit blurred.
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The idea is, if we wanted to hide ourselves from prying aliens searching for planets to strip mine, we could do so by firing a laser beam at the precise moment Earth crosses in front of the Sun from the perspective of other stars lying along the same plane.
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To reach their target speeds, Starshot's sails are supposed to be blasted for several minutes by 50 to 100 gigawatts of energy provided by a laser beam on the Earth's surface (for comparison, the average nuclear power plant produces one gigawatt, according to the US Department of Energy).
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"The focus which used to be like a laser beam on ISIS is now not 100 percent there, so there has been an effect on the overall mission to defeat ISIS in Iraq as a result of the referendum," said coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon, using an acronym for Islamic State.
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In near-perfect circumstances, he shaved almost 2 minutes off that time, per AP. Between the lines: Runners were helped by a pace car with a laser beam, projecting the ideal position on the road, and they received drinks handed over by cyclists and other runners to keep them from slowing down.
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With money from NASA, America's space agency, and others, the Experimental Cosmology Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is designing a system, called Project Starlight, that proposes to use a powerful laser beam to push fleets of lightweight spacecraft, each the size of a DVD, to a fifth of the speed of light.
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Lasers used to cut and weld materials in industry, for example, are now so powerful that Boeing bought a 10kW model to put into its High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD), a system it has assembled for the American army to shoot down drones and incoming mortar shells by firing a laser beam at them.
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While the company says that the acrylic lid provides sufficient eye protection for beamo's 30W Class 1 laser (though they note that you shouldn't stare right at the laser beam, lid or not), I absolutely recommend picking up and wearing a pair of CO2 laser safety goggles, especially when it comes time to pop the machine open and do any maintenance.
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And tiny samples of paint from the 1910 version of Edvard Munch's famous image of angst have been under the X-ray, the laser beam and even a high-powered electron microscope, as scientists have used cutting-edge technology to try to figure out why portions of the canvas that were a brilliant orangeish-yellow are now an ivory white.
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