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- From: humphrey@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Jeff Humphrey [Jeffus])
- Subject: Re: Glasses
- Message-ID: <BzMM37.CDJ@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Computer Security, Naval Research Lab
- References: <Sean_Hurley.0713@dream.uucp> <18506@borg.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:25:54 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <18506@borg.cs.unc.edu> deloura@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Mark A. DeLoura) writes:
- >In article <Sean_Hurley.0713@dream.uucp> Sean_Hurley@dream.uucp (Sean Hurley) writes:
- >>But folks, this lazer idea, even at nano volts is a bad idea -- think about
- >>it, you'll have a laser "burn" an image into the retina...
- >Wrongo!
- >I've tried it, a 1/4 microwatt laser into my eyeball-- worked fine for me,
- >a tad blurry but definitely I could read the time off of the xclock that
- >was being shown.
- >
- >And it was *red*.
- > ---Mark
-
- I realize that people doing this research have explored the health risks but
- I still can't help but think of a common sense laser precaution ...
-
- "Thou shalt not fire lasers into the eyes"
-
- Laser light has a number of health risks associated with it besides ...
- 'burning your retina' ... things like prolonged exposure to radiation (which
- is always assumed to be a bad thing), etc ...
-
- I think it's a really cool idea and the time has come ... but I'll be
- hanging out until a lot of other people have worked with it for quite
- some time before I go shooting beams into my eyes. It's a personal
- choice ...
-
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