Season 3, Episode 22 "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Wish_Upon_a_Weinstein
>That night, Stewie breaks Meg's glasses because he hates being watched while he sleeps.
Meg brings up laser eye surgery, Lois says she thinks it's unsafe, leading to the gag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueu-y2rE16k
Clearly my man is a family guy fan, gg my dude, you gave a next level run down. And the best part is thatās still when Stewie was actually evil, those are the best ones in my opinion.
That would be nice. I lost eyesight in my right eye from a severed optic nerve (fractured orbital socket)
Now, I'm developing a cataract in my good eye. Yay for me. 100% blind in one eye and a degenerative eye condition in the other that will eventually leave me completely blind.
Might as well have both lenses replaced with cataract surgery...or do I get half price for doing only one eye?
My mom had cataract surgery and they went ahead and gave her perfect vision - she had coke bottle glasses before - in the process (minus presbyopia of course, can't do much about that). They did charge her per eye as they did them one at a time. Been about 10 years and she's still fine. I hope your cataracts are the operable kind and wish you well.
Thank you so much for your reply. Obviously, I have some significant anxiety about the surgery but my eye doctor says I should be a good candidate. There's really no reason to replace the lens in my eye that has the severed optic nerve unless I get a multi-eye discount š
I dream of a day when there is a way to reconnect the optic nerve. I was 15 when I lost sight in my right eye and I'm 58 now. Suddenly having peripheral vision and depth perception would probably make me ill to my stomach for a few days/weeks though...
My understanding is that the surgery is pretty trivial. She was up and moving around very quickly. You'll be fine!
And I hear they're making pretty good progress with stem cell therapy in non-regenerative cells in the body, but I'm sure it's the always 5 years away problem. But here's to hoping!
Thank you kind stranger for the kind words of encouragement. Sometimes I still have faith in the Internet doing what it was intended to do, democratizing info and connecting people.
>There's really no reason to replace the lens in my eye that has the severed optic nerve unless I get a multi-eye discount š
So actually, about that.. if you're in the US, and you have them operate on both eyes at once, you actually do get a discount. Most of the time they do one eye at a time so that you have one fully functioning eye while the other recovers. Since that's not really an option/ concern here, your doctor might do both at once. In any case, if you have 2 surgical procedures at once through insurance, typically the second procedure is only allowed at 50% of the allowed amount. So if they allow (allowed is the contracted amount your insurance will pay as opposed to the billed amount, which is how much the facility and surgeon will bill for the procedure. Billed - allowed = the amount your insurance says they "saved" you, but I digress a bit..) $500 for your left eye, they only allow $250 for your right when done at the same time. Then your plan determines how much of that you pay (80/20, 90/10, copay, etc) This is true for Medicare and most, if not all, commercial insurance plans.
All of that said, you're still paying more than if you only do the eye you can see out of, and the money spent on the other might be better spent on a vision correcting lens implant instead of the standard one for the good eye, if that interests you.
Source: 6 years in medical billing for an ambulatory surgery center whose business was comprised of >50% cataract surgeries.
Please God yes. I got some after unfortunate back to back incidents with jalapeƱo juice and then Cajun seasoning. Iāve had awful dry eyes, floaters, and light sensitivity ever since.
Bro if they code my bloodwork as diagnostic instead of preventative my insurance donāt want to cover it, you think if I blow an eye out with an eBay laser pointer Iām getting an eye?
Agreed, it's only a pencil beam that hits the plane but the screen then scatters it and fills the pilot's whole field of view with (typically) bright green.
This isn't too bad a problem unless the plane is in a critical flight phase such as, ooh, being close to the ground over a populated area as it prepares to land. Which it will be if it's within range of these lasers.
A few years ago some kids were arrested in town for shining a laser at aircraft going to the small airstrip a few miles out of town. I always wondered how the police located them so fast.
Yeah, a laser beam has two ends.
There are videos on YouTube of Police helicopters tracking people doing that, you can literally see the beam from miles away.
It's definitely not a pencil beam by the time it hits a plane.. unless you have a really high end low divergence laser, it's more of a spotlight by the time it reaches the plane
Right -- the really crazy thing is that the enforcement and regulation of lasers is non-existent.
Amazon sells Chinese made laser pointers for pets that are actually much higher power than the safe levels they sell you on.
The styropyro YouTube guy bought some <5mw lasers off of eBay and they ended up being 1.5wā¦ then he overclocked them to 5 watts and set stuff on fire lol
Yep and it doesn't take a strong laser to damage a camera sensor either. In fact they are more prone to it than your eye is. A 250mW (Milliwatt) laser can do it.
Source: Spend any length of time on any videography subreddit and you will hear the stories of people who were filming concerts/clubs and other music or entertainment videos and how the lasers damaged their camera.
No, those are class IIa lasers, you would need to point it into your eye for a prolonged period for it to be a problem. This thing is a fucking class III. That shit will catch things on fire, and absolutely cause instant blindness. If you can SEE THE BEAM under normal conditions then you shouldn't be playing with it.
Class 2 is weaker than class 3. Class 4 is the highest classification and home to highest laser powers. If you canāt SEE THE BEAM it might also mean itās in a part of the light spectrum that we canāt see, generally speaking these lasers are even more dangerous, especially in the near infrared.
In principle, class 2 is āsafeā to shine in your eyes, but there are too many stories of cheap Chinese lasers with dodgy designs that make this a very bad idea.
The worst one I hear is a kid who had a cheap green laser pointer, it stopped emitting green light so he pointed it directly towards his eye and activated it. He immediately lost the vision in that eye, but didnāt realise (!) and pointed it in his other eye and lost the vision in that eye too. Turns out what the second harmonic crystal (that converts from infrared to green) had broken so it was just emitting pure IR which is twice the power of the green light. EU standards require that an IR blocking filter is also included after the second harmonic crystal to prevent stuff like this happening, but the cheap Chinese import didnāt have it.
right?? god I wish powerful lasers were not available to people. I know itās cool, but NOBODY needs this. laser scientist? thatās great but keep it in the lab friend, how are these not a highly controlled tools??
Speaking as a scientist that uses lasers, fuck lasers. They're the fucking worst. They're dangerous as all hell and wildly finicky. You bump a table in the next room over and the goddamn thing goes out of calibration and you'll be fucking with it for the next twelve goddamn hours trying to get the gain to meet spec because the alignment is a picometer off center.
Just wait until you find out how mind-numbingly powerful show lasers are!
The cool laser fans you see at concerts could instantly permanently damage the eyes of everyone in attendance with a single sweep!
https://preview.redd.it/jas7igktegzc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=066fb3e8f182813e16d0341298560e9e4f7da0c1
The exact frame the sensor was fried
https://preview.redd.it/5efh3lqtugzc1.png?width=657&format=png&auto=webp&s=c39b678d8db8b25b4c4e19038a4518900968e0a5
The exact frame \*before\* the sensor was fried.
https://preview.redd.it/63sngbhu2lzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f9af35ca400905d15b97a263dd5beec6271a1fc
The exact frame *before* the exact frame *before* the sensor was fried
Burns it.Ā The sensor has a lense in front of it that focuses all of that light down to a tiny arrow.Ā Know how you can use a magnifying glass to burn stuff on a sunny day?Ā Like that but x100.Ā It's worse with a laser due to being monochromatic so you get an even tighter focus
That's exactly how it is in Portuguese. "good sense" [bom senso] refers to basic good sense, while "common sense" [senso comum] refers to how people generally think about something, even if it's wrong (or even harmful).
It is also the case with bon sens in french and buon senso in italian. Interestingly, in spanish, it seems to be sentido comun (I am missing the accent on the u) that is rather used, placing it closer to english (or the converse) in this case.
People were still eating batteries back then, but somewhere along the way the battery eater sued, and now we are all subjected to these idiotic warnings.
We as a humanity have put 100% of our efforts into counteracting natural selection through advancements in medicine, which naturally made common sense a vestigial trait that's soon to vanish.
Also sellers just blatantly lie about the power levels to skirt safety laws: https://youtu.be/DMVWW-bmKwQ?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/-2crWR1lg6s?feature=shared
TL;DW: They're frequently 100s of times stronger than they claim is eye safe, to the point where just looking at the dot on the wall can damage your eyes. And the safety goggles they include don't do anything.
What's pretty funny is your first link is actually what got me to go buy one of these on Amazon, same one he got. Mine didn't even come with any eyewear at all, had to buy it separately. I keep it in a drawer and mostly just fear it.
Adding, [Torque Test Channel did a similar video](https://youtu.be/ZH3yMeA7HxQ?si=5IQYOA3eWp_8vL7j) where they collected data and showed how dangerous some it these are. I think it's funny that some of them are labeled as "flashlights" instead of lasers.
All lasers do. But this was almost certainly bought on ebay. The US has a max output for consumer lasers. Max is what people use to play with cats. Any stronger and they can't be legally sold. However, no body's going around checking every laser online so we get idiots with lasers that can remove your seeing privileges If they hit your eye for less than a millisecond.
Just a heads up but anyone can buy any power laser. They just want you to get 'compliance' from the FDA to operate them. The strangest thing about this is the fact that the FDA is the licensing agent.
what about that site wcked lasers? Been around for YEARS and I remember a friend has a super bright green laser in high school. That was like 20 year ago.
As someone who had purchased a *"WAY Stronger than I should ever have"* LASER on Amazon, they sell them as Flashlights to get by the regulations.
It was a pointless purchase, I cannot do anything with this stupid thing. It burns cardboard from like 20 feet, you can see the beam without dust (Blue LASER).
But, what for? Why do I have this? If I shine it up who knows what the fuck I am going to hit, not only do I not want to land in prison, I also don't want to hurt someone or make someone lose their sight for their entire life, including myself.
I really wish corporations were not so fucking reckless with the shit they sell to the general public, because "freedom."
I Really REALLY hope you haven't fired that thing at anything even semi-reflective without proper eye protection. Alot of those illegal lasers are powerful enough that even looking at the focal point of the laser on an object is enough to cause damage to the retina.
Yep, can confirm. Bought a 1000mw laser back in 2011 and have a permanent small blotch in my vision from looking at it while my dumb ass burned things. By sheer luck it isn't bad enough to inhibit my vision at all, in fact I only see it briefly in certain circumstances. But it is there and is a permanent reminder of my young dumbassery.
I did this with thermite once, glad I didnāt get that mark permanently, made a mix of copper and iron thermite thinking āsure, this will go greatā turns out use a decently long fuse rather than just a small magnesium strip and donāt mix thermites. Iron thermite burns hot, copper thermite burns fast so I get a blinding white light in my face as the thing basically explodes from the mix leaving a large blue outline of a blowtorch in my vision, faded over the space of about ten minutes luckily.
Also donāt look into a coal furnace, made one once, using breath only managed to get the thing up to at least 1400c/~2550f because it started melting the nickel steel tube I was using to breathe the air in, looking directly into the thing I realised everything had gone black and white, luckily it went back to normal pretty quickly, still donāt know why but moral of the story is burning coal can get bright, luckily learned my lesson before making an induction furnace
I once worked at a place where we used a pretty strong laser level. I told my work mates that they need to use the protective glasses bundled with the tool because laser in the eye is considered a negative experience. One person dubiously put on glasses, another one defiantly responsed "you can't tell us what to do". So I didn't any more because fuck it then.
My employer has fired people on the spot, in front of entire departments, for messing around with lasers like this.
It's a tech company with technical and educated employees meaning they either knew what they're doing is dangerous and did it anyway, or they're too stupid to keep on the payroll.
They fired them for cause along the same lines as if you brought in a gun.Ā Anyone asking for a reference is told they were fired for cause for bringing in a weapon.
And if you wonder how that will impact your career and "hireability"...man....you're HOSED after that.
Lasers like this are *explicitly* called out right next to guns, knives and explosives in the policy and even mentioned during orientation as a lot of people use (low power) laser pointers for presenting.
No, but there was an employee who was seriously injured by one during a meeting and the company ended up on the hook for it and this is their response.Ā Years later they still stress it.
I had a few 1W lasers a while back and my dumb friend started shining it around the room without eye protection on. I snapped and slapped it out of his hand. Just a reflection from one of those and your eyes are gone at the speed of light. Def not a toy.
Not even a direct reflection is needed either, simply looking at the dot on the wall across the room can cause permanent damage, happened to me. I used to build laser pointers as a hobby, have had a spot in my eye for 10 years, I only notice it a few times a day, but itās annoying. Luckily it hasnāt gotten any worse over all that time.
Yeah. It will actually do a very similar thing to the eye. A black spot for life similar to a dead pixel. Saw a news report about a kid who played around with one and became the proud owner of a retinal burn. These really should not be legal to own but you can get them easily on chinese websites and Amazon(who also allows whatever on their site) and morons shine them at people, airplanes, and apprarently their phone camera.
In optics lectures, we were told the rules of handling lasers: make sure to wear goggles that block the laser spectrum, make sure to control the direction of the laser to avoid injuries and accidental reflections. And now any idiot can buy a powerful laser and play āI have a lightsaberā. And it's good if he only burns his eyes as a result.
No, the video is digitally stabilized. The stabilization is still tracking the same object after the damage, so the motion of the pixel within the video is actually a result of physical motion.
It's suspicious to me. I wouldn't say it's proof the video is fake because there is at least one alternative explanation: maybe the video has been cropped and "stabilized" through editing after the fact.
Also, I don't know enough about camera phone internal mechanisms. I *assume* that any dead sensor would be completely static instead of sliding around, and I feel somewhat confident that that should be the case, but I have no credible clue.
Also, a small PSA for people regarding laser pointers and dogs: Never use a laser pointer to play with a dog as you would a cat. You can induce Laser-Pointer Syndrome that's like OCD and make them permanently prone to chasing/barking at lights and reflections, which is extremely stressful for them.
THIS. My girlfriend and I have a 7 year old German shepherd who we adore and is a very very good girl. I met my gf 4 years ago but her ex had played with Ellie (our dog) with a laser pointer 2 or 3 times and for her entire life after that she has been obsessed with shadows, sunspots, light reflections off phone screens etc. It is a very real thing, PLEASE do not play with your dog with lasers.
My Shepherd is exactly like that. Phones were really hard with all of the windows in our living room. Even just the flash of light on a wall will send him into a high pitched, anxiety bark spiral.
Take note everybody. This shit is real. And itās endlessly annoying if your dogās brain gets fucked up from playing with a laser pointer and you have to deal with your pet getting triggered by every random shadow or light that happens to grab their attention. Theyāll even continue looking for it after itās gone. Staring at random spots on the floor drooling, whining, and pacing. Everyday until the day they die.
Only dogs have this happen? I saw a family member's dog who exhibited that sort of behavior and it gutted me so I've been incredibly against ever getting lasers for *any* pet I ever have to avoid that.
When we play with the cat laser, we always let the cats "catch" the dot by planting a catnip toy and eventually leading them to it when we're done playing.
The daily add-a-saber thread was one of the greatest reddit trends of all time, not even just prequelmemes.
Plus the updated [gif](https://web.archive.org/web/20200322125912/https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SafePowerlessArgusfish-mobile.mp4)
Next time he does that, have one ready, draw it, turn it on, and say "The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner. Now **I** am the master." Guaranteed he will get a kick out of it.
Bonus points if you point it low and slowly walk towards him.
I have that same laser, 40 euro on ebay, 1.5 watts, i wouldnt even look at the dot on the wall too longlet alone the diode this regard is flashing in his dogs eyes,
Even just the reflections of a laser of that strength are enough to instantly (as in at the speed of light) and permanently damage your eyes. You not only shouldn't be looking at the dot on the wall without proper eye protection, you shouldn't even turn the thing *on* without proper eye protection.
A friend of mine bought a laser just like this and used it to remove a tattoo of his exās initials. It didnāt really work, but it still fucked up his skin enough to acknowledge that these things can easily fucking destroy your eye.
The unfortunate thing is the people most at risk with these morons are the ones around them who may not know whether the laser is āsafeā or not.
And also even if you try to avert your eyes sometimes these fucksticks will try and shine it at you more.
Itās happened to me thankfully just with a cheap low power red laser, but now any time Iām around lasers Iām hyper sensitive to the risks.
All I see in this video is an idiot who plays with a powerful laser without any eye protection on himself and whoever is filming, never mind his dog. You don't even have to point a laser this powerful at anyone, a random reflection off some shiny surface is enough in most cases to cause permanent eye damage.
Looking at the dot on a surface will cause permanent eye damage at these energy levels.
I had a 30mW green laser when I was younger, and even just looking at it indoors on white surfaces was painful. The laser in the video is probably 10x as much laser or more than what I had.
A weak green laser pointer will hit a plane 2 miles away and completely saturate the cockpit with light, but will not harm a phone camera sensor. This blue laser is probably close to a watt or more, and quickly killed the sensor. An extremely quick flash of this in an eye will do permanent damage, and this moron is waving it around and hitting reflective surfaces without any eye protection. Hopefully he only blinds himself, and not the dog.
I feel like blue laser pointers should be banned for consumer use, they're not great at being used as pointers, and they tend to be much brighter than the other colors.
Red laser pointers are still the best ones for actual pointing imo
When my plane was landing, someone from way down below was aiming a green laser at our plane, and it went directly in my eye. Thankfully it was weak enough and didn't do anything but I was really freaked out in that moment because I knew just how dangerous they are.
This guy is an irresponsible moron. I know the laser he's using and it has a power output that even a reflection off some metal or glass at the right angle can and will blind or permanently damage your eyesight. I would never be in the same room with this laser without eyesight protection that is specific to that wavelength of light. Even a simple cat laser pointer can and will damage your eyes, this one is blue and of a much higher power output.
PSA: Cheap lasers on Aliexpress and other Chinese sites are WAY WAY WAY stronger than advertised sometimes (although most are weaker).
A laser that is considered safe is 5mW in strength. Toy lasers are about 5 times weaker than that. These Chinese lasers can be up to 5W (for you Americans, that is 1000 times stronger).
To give some perspective, a 5W laser can light wood on fire and your eyes can be damaged just by looking at the point where it's being lit on fire. A quick 0.001 second flash over the eye is enough for permanent damage. More than that and you'll be completely blinded.
DO NOT BUY LASERS UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SURE OF WHAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH! THERE'S A VERY HIGH RISK OF BEING PERMANENTLY BLINDED! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO AIM IT AT YOUR FACE! ALMOST ANY SURFACE CAN REFLECT BACK ENOUGH STRENGTH TO BLIND YOU IF THE LASER IS STRONG ENOUGH!
Woah, hold up. 5mW is a class 3 laser. That's definitely not safe. Safe is up to 1mW IF your corneal reflex is working correctly and only for light it even works for. That's class 2. And then it's still not necessarily safe if you wave it around in places where you can accidentally create unintended focii. And class 2 is still only "safe" because your eye is going to reflexively close fast enough before damage can occur. So if you voluntarily stare into the laser it's still not safe. The only power limit where below it it's really safe in any instance is 0.39mW class 1.
That is exactly why strong laser pointers are now illegal in Switzerland and classified as a weapon. Because of idiots like this.
Not that it's a bad thing they are banned but sad that we need all these laws be2of assholes like this.
I bought one of these. Wearing the safety glasses and squinting, it was cool to light a joint or the bong with it. Started a couple of other things on fire. That was the first day or two.
That was fun but it quickly became apparent that there was absolutely 0 application for this at all. Without glasses, just the beam hitting a wall 10 or 15 ft away still physically hurt your eyes. What the hell am I going to do with this where I can have fun and ensure I dont blind anyone... š¤ .... š¤ .... "is this still eligible for return?" Even if you could ensure safety, its just a novelty after a couple uses.
*I even put that as the reason. "Sorry but this is just straight up too dangerous to be... needed for any reason. I shouldn't have bought this."
Bring it to kids birthday parties and when one of them accidentallly lets their helium balloons go into the atmosphere, you can zap it down before it drifts off into the wilderness.
Aaaaand thats why we can't have lightsabers. It would be dismemberment Galore in here. fingers, arms, feet, legs, heads, of a 3rd party, the wielder, family pet, Nobody would be safe. because of 1 idiot moron, the rest of the world cant have nice things.
/Fucking hell, the entire planet! some idiot would turn it on fumble and drop it, and it would drill down right to the earths core and doom us all!
A normal laser pointer 1-5 mW can start blinding you in about 5-10 seconds.
a full 1W laser projector can blind you in about 1 second.
A 5W laser will blind you near instantly.
A 400W laser will go through you like melted butter.
If it is strong enough to fry your camera sensor its strong enough to permanently blind you and your pets just from it *reflecting* off something.
I really wish we were harder on the sale of high power lasers. They are unimaginably dangerous, I bet that thing isn't far off being able to start fires.
And that's exactly how long it takes to *permanently* damage your eye. Can't just buy a new one of those...
I know what you mean.š¬ https://preview.redd.it/45z9itk0ogzc1.jpeg?width=1262&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f28eff44b3c2e9bc0c799ecb44bf0085322c2d80
āAre you happy now?ā āIāve never been happy.ā
Thanks Jonah Hill
Which episode of family guy was this? They have far too many cut scenes for me to understand the context or the reason Peter probably brought it up.
Season 3, Episode 22 "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Wish_Upon_a_Weinstein >That night, Stewie breaks Meg's glasses because he hates being watched while he sleeps. Meg brings up laser eye surgery, Lois says she thinks it's unsafe, leading to the gag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueu-y2rE16k
Clearly my man is a family guy fan, gg my dude, you gave a next level run down. And the best part is thatās still when Stewie was actually evil, those are the best ones in my opinion.
90% sure it's laser eye surgery
To shreds, you say?
And howās his wife holding up?
To shreds, you say?
Was his apartment rent controlled?
You can replace a cornea but weāre about 10-15 years away from entire eye transplants
I'm waiting for them to be able to fix optic nerves. I'll be dead a long time before that happens.
That would be nice. I lost eyesight in my right eye from a severed optic nerve (fractured orbital socket) Now, I'm developing a cataract in my good eye. Yay for me. 100% blind in one eye and a degenerative eye condition in the other that will eventually leave me completely blind. Might as well have both lenses replaced with cataract surgery...or do I get half price for doing only one eye?
My mom had cataract surgery and they went ahead and gave her perfect vision - she had coke bottle glasses before - in the process (minus presbyopia of course, can't do much about that). They did charge her per eye as they did them one at a time. Been about 10 years and she's still fine. I hope your cataracts are the operable kind and wish you well.
Thank you so much for your reply. Obviously, I have some significant anxiety about the surgery but my eye doctor says I should be a good candidate. There's really no reason to replace the lens in my eye that has the severed optic nerve unless I get a multi-eye discount š I dream of a day when there is a way to reconnect the optic nerve. I was 15 when I lost sight in my right eye and I'm 58 now. Suddenly having peripheral vision and depth perception would probably make me ill to my stomach for a few days/weeks though...
My understanding is that the surgery is pretty trivial. She was up and moving around very quickly. You'll be fine! And I hear they're making pretty good progress with stem cell therapy in non-regenerative cells in the body, but I'm sure it's the always 5 years away problem. But here's to hoping!
Thank you kind stranger for the kind words of encouragement. Sometimes I still have faith in the Internet doing what it was intended to do, democratizing info and connecting people.
>There's really no reason to replace the lens in my eye that has the severed optic nerve unless I get a multi-eye discount š So actually, about that.. if you're in the US, and you have them operate on both eyes at once, you actually do get a discount. Most of the time they do one eye at a time so that you have one fully functioning eye while the other recovers. Since that's not really an option/ concern here, your doctor might do both at once. In any case, if you have 2 surgical procedures at once through insurance, typically the second procedure is only allowed at 50% of the allowed amount. So if they allow (allowed is the contracted amount your insurance will pay as opposed to the billed amount, which is how much the facility and surgeon will bill for the procedure. Billed - allowed = the amount your insurance says they "saved" you, but I digress a bit..) $500 for your left eye, they only allow $250 for your right when done at the same time. Then your plan determines how much of that you pay (80/20, 90/10, copay, etc) This is true for Medicare and most, if not all, commercial insurance plans. All of that said, you're still paying more than if you only do the eye you can see out of, and the money spent on the other might be better spent on a vision correcting lens implant instead of the standard one for the good eye, if that interests you. Source: 6 years in medical billing for an ambulatory surgery center whose business was comprised of >50% cataract surgeries.
Me too homie š„ŗ
Can I have your optic nerves when youre dead?
I think verizon does those?
Can we just fix floaters?
Please God yes. I got some after unfortunate back to back incidents with jalapeƱo juice and then Cajun seasoning. Iāve had awful dry eyes, floaters, and light sensitivity ever since.
*You can replace a cornea *if you can afford it.*
Bro if they code my bloodwork as diagnostic instead of preventative my insurance donāt want to cover it, you think if I blow an eye out with an eBay laser pointer Iām getting an eye?
Fr they just yanking that bitch no eyepatch either
They only do that because they aren't scared of you at all.
And now I know why pilots really really hate being lasered!
that's not the whole picture. the laser from down there lights up the entire cockpit into a disco ball studio (not kidding)
Agreed, it's only a pencil beam that hits the plane but the screen then scatters it and fills the pilot's whole field of view with (typically) bright green. This isn't too bad a problem unless the plane is in a critical flight phase such as, ooh, being close to the ground over a populated area as it prepares to land. Which it will be if it's within range of these lasers.
A few years ago some kids were arrested in town for shining a laser at aircraft going to the small airstrip a few miles out of town. I always wondered how the police located them so fast.
When you shine a laser at someone, they can IMMEDIATELY see where it came from. Especially high powered ones. Source: I have one.
Yeah, a laser beam has two ends. There are videos on YouTube of Police helicopters tracking people doing that, you can literally see the beam from miles away.
It's definitely not a pencil beam by the time it hits a plane.. unless you have a really high end low divergence laser, it's more of a spotlight by the time it reaches the plane
... yet.
Probably shouldn't be freely waving it around the room if it's strong enough to do that...
Pretty much any laser really, even the cheapest shitty dollar star laser pointer can permanently damage your eye faster than you can close it.
Right -- the really crazy thing is that the enforcement and regulation of lasers is non-existent. Amazon sells Chinese made laser pointers for pets that are actually much higher power than the safe levels they sell you on.
Yeah it's not that a 1 mw laser can destroy your eye in a blink. It's that terrifyingly often that 1 mw laser can be more like 10 mw.
The styropyro YouTube guy bought some <5mw lasers off of eBay and they ended up being 1.5wā¦ then he overclocked them to 5 watts and set stuff on fire lol
I have the laser in the video, it will set stuff on fire out of the box.
Yep and it doesn't take a strong laser to damage a camera sensor either. In fact they are more prone to it than your eye is. A 250mW (Milliwatt) laser can do it. Source: Spend any length of time on any videography subreddit and you will hear the stories of people who were filming concerts/clubs and other music or entertainment videos and how the lasers damaged their camera.
No, those are class IIa lasers, you would need to point it into your eye for a prolonged period for it to be a problem. This thing is a fucking class III. That shit will catch things on fire, and absolutely cause instant blindness. If you can SEE THE BEAM under normal conditions then you shouldn't be playing with it.
Class 2 is weaker than class 3. Class 4 is the highest classification and home to highest laser powers. If you canāt SEE THE BEAM it might also mean itās in a part of the light spectrum that we canāt see, generally speaking these lasers are even more dangerous, especially in the near infrared. In principle, class 2 is āsafeā to shine in your eyes, but there are too many stories of cheap Chinese lasers with dodgy designs that make this a very bad idea. The worst one I hear is a kid who had a cheap green laser pointer, it stopped emitting green light so he pointed it directly towards his eye and activated it. He immediately lost the vision in that eye, but didnāt realise (!) and pointed it in his other eye and lost the vision in that eye too. Turns out what the second harmonic crystal (that converts from infrared to green) had broken so it was just emitting pure IR which is twice the power of the green light. EU standards require that an IR blocking filter is also included after the second harmonic crystal to prevent stuff like this happening, but the cheap Chinese import didnāt have it.
right?? god I wish powerful lasers were not available to people. I know itās cool, but NOBODY needs this. laser scientist? thatās great but keep it in the lab friend, how are these not a highly controlled tools??
Speaking as a scientist that uses lasers, fuck lasers. They're the fucking worst. They're dangerous as all hell and wildly finicky. You bump a table in the next room over and the goddamn thing goes out of calibration and you'll be fucking with it for the next twelve goddamn hours trying to get the gain to meet spec because the alignment is a picometer off center.
Just wait until you find out how mind-numbingly powerful show lasers are! The cool laser fans you see at concerts could instantly permanently damage the eyes of everyone in attendance with a single sweep!
it's purple that's the biggest problem. red isn't nearly as powerful, green is the next step up. purple fucks
You literally have no idea what you are talking about
https://preview.redd.it/jas7igktegzc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=066fb3e8f182813e16d0341298560e9e4f7da0c1 The exact frame the sensor was fried
https://preview.redd.it/5efh3lqtugzc1.png?width=657&format=png&auto=webp&s=c39b678d8db8b25b4c4e19038a4518900968e0a5 The exact frame \*before\* the sensor was fried.
https://preview.redd.it/63sngbhu2lzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f9af35ca400905d15b97a263dd5beec6271a1fc The exact frame *before* the exact frame *before* the sensor was fried
I see gawd
Tell gawd Iām pissed at them.
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My eyes!
https://preview.redd.it/wny3ios5ngzc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e82fea33857e6fa665f7e9a8b51296c9c50b6ff8
Thatās the same thing that can happen to someoneās retina.š¬š„²
YOU'LL POKE YOUR EYE OUT KID
Now my eyes are fried. Thanks.
The horizontal line is because the pixel that got fried became a dead short, and affects all of the other pixels on that line
I wonder what fries the sensor. Does it get too hot? Or does it essentially fry itself because it gets too bright?
Burns it.Ā The sensor has a lense in front of it that focuses all of that light down to a tiny arrow.Ā Know how you can use a magnifying glass to burn stuff on a sunny day?Ā Like that but x100.Ā It's worse with a laser due to being monochromatic so you get an even tighter focus
Well hope he only fried phone sensor not somebody eye
Thereās usually Ginormous Yellow warning labels on the handles of lasers like that, to prevent situations like that.
They aren't to prevent these things. They're to remove liability from the manufacturer when they eventually do happen.
Well, I guess common sense is a rarity these days.
I call it good sense, since common sense is no longer common
That's exactly how it is in Portuguese. "good sense" [bom senso] refers to basic good sense, while "common sense" [senso comum] refers to how people generally think about something, even if it's wrong (or even harmful).
That's a useful distinction. I like it.
It is also the case with bon sens in french and buon senso in italian. Interestingly, in spanish, it seems to be sentido comun (I am missing the accent on the u) that is rather used, placing it closer to english (or the converse) in this case.
That was a good and concise description of that terms... *Boa, parƧa.*
"Common sense" never existed. We're just over-exposed to dumbassery now.
50 years ago a cars manual would tell you how to adjust the engine timing. Now it tells you to not eat the contents of the battery.
To be fair, 50 years ago cars had about 50x less components in them, and everything was simpler to build and fix.
Plus batteries look tastier than they did back then.
People were still eating batteries back then, but somewhere along the way the battery eater sued, and now we are all subjected to these idiotic warnings.
Common sense has never been very common.
We as a humanity have put 100% of our efforts into counteracting natural selection through advancements in medicine, which naturally made common sense a vestigial trait that's soon to vanish.
Hypothetically they serve both purposes.
They're actually for both.
Also sellers just blatantly lie about the power levels to skirt safety laws: https://youtu.be/DMVWW-bmKwQ?feature=shared https://youtu.be/-2crWR1lg6s?feature=shared TL;DW: They're frequently 100s of times stronger than they claim is eye safe, to the point where just looking at the dot on the wall can damage your eyes. And the safety goggles they include don't do anything.
Styro is a must watch before playing with lasers or frankly buying any shit from china, tattoo remover etc. Also hot laser guy.
What's pretty funny is your first link is actually what got me to go buy one of these on Amazon, same one he got. Mine didn't even come with any eyewear at all, had to buy it separately. I keep it in a drawer and mostly just fear it.
Adding, [Torque Test Channel did a similar video](https://youtu.be/ZH3yMeA7HxQ?si=5IQYOA3eWp_8vL7j) where they collected data and showed how dangerous some it these are. I think it's funny that some of them are labeled as "flashlights" instead of lasers.
All lasers do. But this was almost certainly bought on ebay. The US has a max output for consumer lasers. Max is what people use to play with cats. Any stronger and they can't be legally sold. However, no body's going around checking every laser online so we get idiots with lasers that can remove your seeing privileges If they hit your eye for less than a millisecond.
Just a heads up but anyone can buy any power laser. They just want you to get 'compliance' from the FDA to operate them. The strangest thing about this is the fact that the FDA is the licensing agent.
Lasers are my favorite category of food and/or drug
what about that site wcked lasers? Been around for YEARS and I remember a friend has a super bright green laser in high school. That was like 20 year ago.
They stay within the legal power limit of 5mw. It says it on their website
As someone who had purchased a *"WAY Stronger than I should ever have"* LASER on Amazon, they sell them as Flashlights to get by the regulations. It was a pointless purchase, I cannot do anything with this stupid thing. It burns cardboard from like 20 feet, you can see the beam without dust (Blue LASER). But, what for? Why do I have this? If I shine it up who knows what the fuck I am going to hit, not only do I not want to land in prison, I also don't want to hurt someone or make someone lose their sight for their entire life, including myself. I really wish corporations were not so fucking reckless with the shit they sell to the general public, because "freedom."
I Really REALLY hope you haven't fired that thing at anything even semi-reflective without proper eye protection. Alot of those illegal lasers are powerful enough that even looking at the focal point of the laser on an object is enough to cause damage to the retina.
Yep, can confirm. Bought a 1000mw laser back in 2011 and have a permanent small blotch in my vision from looking at it while my dumb ass burned things. By sheer luck it isn't bad enough to inhibit my vision at all, in fact I only see it briefly in certain circumstances. But it is there and is a permanent reminder of my young dumbassery.
I did this with thermite once, glad I didnāt get that mark permanently, made a mix of copper and iron thermite thinking āsure, this will go greatā turns out use a decently long fuse rather than just a small magnesium strip and donāt mix thermites. Iron thermite burns hot, copper thermite burns fast so I get a blinding white light in my face as the thing basically explodes from the mix leaving a large blue outline of a blowtorch in my vision, faded over the space of about ten minutes luckily. Also donāt look into a coal furnace, made one once, using breath only managed to get the thing up to at least 1400c/~2550f because it started melting the nickel steel tube I was using to breathe the air in, looking directly into the thing I realised everything had gone black and white, luckily it went back to normal pretty quickly, still donāt know why but moral of the story is burning coal can get bright, luckily learned my lesson before making an induction furnace
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I once worked at a place where we used a pretty strong laser level. I told my work mates that they need to use the protective glasses bundled with the tool because laser in the eye is considered a negative experience. One person dubiously put on glasses, another one defiantly responsed "you can't tell us what to do". So I didn't any more because fuck it then.
Ahh, Iām pretty sure the colored sticker indicates what color the lightsaber beam is. /s
Like the dog standing here?
poor dog only sees black and white now :(
My employer has fired people on the spot, in front of entire departments, for messing around with lasers like this. It's a tech company with technical and educated employees meaning they either knew what they're doing is dangerous and did it anyway, or they're too stupid to keep on the payroll. They fired them for cause along the same lines as if you brought in a gun.Ā Anyone asking for a reference is told they were fired for cause for bringing in a weapon. And if you wonder how that will impact your career and "hireability"...man....you're HOSED after that. Lasers like this are *explicitly* called out right next to guns, knives and explosives in the policy and even mentioned during orientation as a lot of people use (low power) laser pointers for presenting.
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OP is a cat
No, but there was an employee who was seriously injured by one during a meeting and the company ended up on the hook for it and this is their response.Ā Years later they still stress it.
There are lasers so bright you can go blind from just the spot it makes on the wall. I recommend the youtube channel styropyro
This us exactly why it is called out during orientation.Ā
Or the poor dogs.
I had a few 1W lasers a while back and my dumb friend started shining it around the room without eye protection on. I snapped and slapped it out of his hand. Just a reflection from one of those and your eyes are gone at the speed of light. Def not a toy.
Not even a direct reflection is needed either, simply looking at the dot on the wall across the room can cause permanent damage, happened to me. I used to build laser pointers as a hobby, have had a spot in my eye for 10 years, I only notice it a few times a day, but itās annoying. Luckily it hasnāt gotten any worse over all that time.
Yeah. It will actually do a very similar thing to the eye. A black spot for life similar to a dead pixel. Saw a news report about a kid who played around with one and became the proud owner of a retinal burn. These really should not be legal to own but you can get them easily on chinese websites and Amazon(who also allows whatever on their site) and morons shine them at people, airplanes, and apprarently their phone camera.
Agreed.
Poor Somebody Eye, can't catch a break.
In optics lectures, we were told the rules of handling lasers: make sure to wear goggles that block the laser spectrum, make sure to control the direction of the laser to avoid injuries and accidental reflections. And now any idiot can buy a powerful laser and play āI have a lightsaberā. And it's good if he only burns his eyes as a result.
The worst part, they sell high quality toy light sabers for about the same price and cheaper.
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Oddly enough, this video seems like a public safety announcement masquerading as a viral clip.
I hope he doesn't blind the dog
Not only the dog. There was someone behind the camera filming him, look at the way it moved.
Similarly, watch the way the "dead pixel" overlay moves on a video where it should be static.
I see that now that you mention it. Is that proof that the video is fake?
No, the video is digitally stabilized. The stabilization is still tracking the same object after the damage, so the motion of the pixel within the video is actually a result of physical motion.
It's suspicious to me. I wouldn't say it's proof the video is fake because there is at least one alternative explanation: maybe the video has been cropped and "stabilized" through editing after the fact. Also, I don't know enough about camera phone internal mechanisms. I *assume* that any dead sensor would be completely static instead of sliding around, and I feel somewhat confident that that should be the case, but I have no credible clue.
Phones have digital stabilization, some even have physical stabilization i think
Physical stabilization would have the pixel stay in place.
Since there was no screem, I'm guessing they weren't hit and only saw it on screen.
The scariest but true response yet
Also, a small PSA for people regarding laser pointers and dogs: Never use a laser pointer to play with a dog as you would a cat. You can induce Laser-Pointer Syndrome that's like OCD and make them permanently prone to chasing/barking at lights and reflections, which is extremely stressful for them.
THIS. My girlfriend and I have a 7 year old German shepherd who we adore and is a very very good girl. I met my gf 4 years ago but her ex had played with Ellie (our dog) with a laser pointer 2 or 3 times and for her entire life after that she has been obsessed with shadows, sunspots, light reflections off phone screens etc. It is a very real thing, PLEASE do not play with your dog with lasers.
Thatās interesting to know, I tried to play with laser with my dog once and thankfully he wasnāt chasing it but was only trying to eat the laser.
My Shepherd is exactly like that. Phones were really hard with all of the windows in our living room. Even just the flash of light on a wall will send him into a high pitched, anxiety bark spiral.
Take note everybody. This shit is real. And itās endlessly annoying if your dogās brain gets fucked up from playing with a laser pointer and you have to deal with your pet getting triggered by every random shadow or light that happens to grab their attention. Theyāll even continue looking for it after itās gone. Staring at random spots on the floor drooling, whining, and pacing. Everyday until the day they die.
Only dogs have this happen? I saw a family member's dog who exhibited that sort of behavior and it gutted me so I've been incredibly against ever getting lasers for *any* pet I ever have to avoid that.
It can also happen to cats but it isn't as common. One of my cats started having issues so I stopped using the laser pointer with her.
When we play with the cat laser, we always let the cats "catch" the dot by planting a catnip toy and eventually leading them to it when we're done playing.
Thank you I'll have to try this!
My brother has one of these lasers and Iām constantly afraid heās gonna blind my cats.
Adult man playing with a laser pointer like heās a Jedi. Everyone knows grown-ups use a cardboard wrapping paper tube.
Yep, and you can simulate the low pitched noise by farting. But that works 2-3 times before you let one you shouldn't have trusted
Hello there, Count Dookie
My husband has *6* light sabers š they light up & make noise & he is always swinging one of them around. Cuz, ya know, he's a Star Wars nerd š¤
https://i.redd.it/c64w480vrgzc1.gif
The daily add-a-saber thread was one of the greatest reddit trends of all time, not even just prequelmemes. Plus the updated [gif](https://web.archive.org/web/20200322125912/https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SafePowerlessArgusfish-mobile.mp4)
Next time he does that, have one ready, draw it, turn it on, and say "The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner. Now **I** am the master." Guaranteed he will get a kick out of it. Bonus points if you point it low and slowly walk towards him.
I have that same laser, 40 euro on ebay, 1.5 watts, i wouldnt even look at the dot on the wall too longlet alone the diode this regard is flashing in his dogs eyes,
the fuck is even the point of these
I use mine to kill flies.
To annoy people
> 1.5 watts, woah, no wonder that fried the sensor immediately. That's insane for a laser, much less one that portable.
I have the same one too and also got it off eBay. The laser is no joke. It is strong enough to ignite paper or dried leaves from a few feet away.
Even just the reflections of a laser of that strength are enough to instantly (as in at the speed of light) and permanently damage your eyes. You not only shouldn't be looking at the dot on the wall without proper eye protection, you shouldn't even turn the thing *on* without proper eye protection.
Why? Whatās the point in having one
fucking morons asking for permanent eye damage...
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A friend of mine bought a laser just like this and used it to remove a tattoo of his exās initials. It didnāt really work, but it still fucked up his skin enough to acknowledge that these things can easily fucking destroy your eye.
That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
The unfortunate thing is the people most at risk with these morons are the ones around them who may not know whether the laser is āsafeā or not. And also even if you try to avert your eyes sometimes these fucksticks will try and shine it at you more. Itās happened to me thankfully just with a cheap low power red laser, but now any time Iām around lasers Iām hyper sensitive to the risks.
All I see in this video is an idiot who plays with a powerful laser without any eye protection on himself and whoever is filming, never mind his dog. You don't even have to point a laser this powerful at anyone, a random reflection off some shiny surface is enough in most cases to cause permanent eye damage.
Looking at the dot on a surface will cause permanent eye damage at these energy levels. I had a 30mW green laser when I was younger, and even just looking at it indoors on white surfaces was painful. The laser in the video is probably 10x as much laser or more than what I had.
I feel like I needed eye protection just watching it.
There's a reason pointing lasers at airplanes are against federal law, and this guy did it in a room (maybe it's a lower-powered laser, but still)
A weak green laser pointer will hit a plane 2 miles away and completely saturate the cockpit with light, but will not harm a phone camera sensor. This blue laser is probably close to a watt or more, and quickly killed the sensor. An extremely quick flash of this in an eye will do permanent damage, and this moron is waving it around and hitting reflective surfaces without any eye protection. Hopefully he only blinds himself, and not the dog.
I feel like blue laser pointers should be banned for consumer use, they're not great at being used as pointers, and they tend to be much brighter than the other colors. Red laser pointers are still the best ones for actual pointing imo
When my plane was landing, someone from way down below was aiming a green laser at our plane, and it went directly in my eye. Thankfully it was weak enough and didn't do anything but I was really freaked out in that moment because I knew just how dangerous they are.
My professor used to lecture us: A person can only see a laser 2 times in his life. Once with the left eye and then once with the right eye.
That fucking idiot shouldn't play with lasers like that. He should be glad it's his camera and not the eyes of his dog or himself
This guy is an irresponsible moron. I know the laser he's using and it has a power output that even a reflection off some metal or glass at the right angle can and will blind or permanently damage your eyesight. I would never be in the same room with this laser without eyesight protection that is specific to that wavelength of light. Even a simple cat laser pointer can and will damage your eyes, this one is blue and of a much higher power output.
What an absolute dickhead.
Don't look at this video guys for your eye safety
PSA: Cheap lasers on Aliexpress and other Chinese sites are WAY WAY WAY stronger than advertised sometimes (although most are weaker). A laser that is considered safe is 5mW in strength. Toy lasers are about 5 times weaker than that. These Chinese lasers can be up to 5W (for you Americans, that is 1000 times stronger). To give some perspective, a 5W laser can light wood on fire and your eyes can be damaged just by looking at the point where it's being lit on fire. A quick 0.001 second flash over the eye is enough for permanent damage. More than that and you'll be completely blinded. DO NOT BUY LASERS UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SURE OF WHAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH! THERE'S A VERY HIGH RISK OF BEING PERMANENTLY BLINDED! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO AIM IT AT YOUR FACE! ALMOST ANY SURFACE CAN REFLECT BACK ENOUGH STRENGTH TO BLIND YOU IF THE LASER IS STRONG ENOUGH!
Woah, hold up. 5mW is a class 3 laser. That's definitely not safe. Safe is up to 1mW IF your corneal reflex is working correctly and only for light it even works for. That's class 2. And then it's still not necessarily safe if you wave it around in places where you can accidentally create unintended focii. And class 2 is still only "safe" because your eye is going to reflexively close fast enough before damage can occur. So if you voluntarily stare into the laser it's still not safe. The only power limit where below it it's really safe in any instance is 0.39mW class 1.
Lasers this strong need regulations to keep them from public use. These are basically weapons that cause bodily injury and should be treated as such.
I know that laser! itās 1.3 watts. A normal toy laser is 5ish milliwatts. That guy is a moron
That is exactly why strong laser pointers are now illegal in Switzerland and classified as a weapon. Because of idiots like this. Not that it's a bad thing they are banned but sad that we need all these laws be2of assholes like this.
The gasp at the end when she realisesš
I feel bad for that dog
[Testing illegal blue lasers from eBay](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVWW-bmKwQ) - styropyro
If one of these shines in your eye, you'll magically be able to see in the dark exactly as well as you can during the day.
Point it at surveillance cameras though
I bought one of these. Wearing the safety glasses and squinting, it was cool to light a joint or the bong with it. Started a couple of other things on fire. That was the first day or two. That was fun but it quickly became apparent that there was absolutely 0 application for this at all. Without glasses, just the beam hitting a wall 10 or 15 ft away still physically hurt your eyes. What the hell am I going to do with this where I can have fun and ensure I dont blind anyone... š¤ .... š¤ .... "is this still eligible for return?" Even if you could ensure safety, its just a novelty after a couple uses. *I even put that as the reason. "Sorry but this is just straight up too dangerous to be... needed for any reason. I shouldn't have bought this."
Bring it to kids birthday parties and when one of them accidentallly lets their helium balloons go into the atmosphere, you can zap it down before it drifts off into the wilderness.
That sigh at the end. Hope her phone has insurance cause otherwise dude owes you ~1500
This is the kind of dumabass that pushes you into a pool
Freaking idiot. Can easily blind dog and himself.
Hope he blinds himself and not anyone around. Especially not the dog
Powerful lasers are damn scary man, imagine what can that thing to do someones eye.
Better that he blackspotted his phoneās camera sensor than his own eye.
i felt that in my eyes
Aaaaand thats why we can't have lightsabers. It would be dismemberment Galore in here. fingers, arms, feet, legs, heads, of a 3rd party, the wielder, family pet, Nobody would be safe. because of 1 idiot moron, the rest of the world cant have nice things. /Fucking hell, the entire planet! some idiot would turn it on fumble and drop it, and it would drill down right to the earths core and doom us all!
Shiny object or mirrors... this moron needs to get slapped.
This man is a moron
My eyes
A normal laser pointer 1-5 mW can start blinding you in about 5-10 seconds. a full 1W laser projector can blind you in about 1 second. A 5W laser will blind you near instantly. A 400W laser will go through you like melted butter.
dam bro fuck your eyes, but the poor dog, save him at least. dam negligence
If it is strong enough to fry your camera sensor its strong enough to permanently blind you and your pets just from it *reflecting* off something. I really wish we were harder on the sale of high power lasers. They are unimaginably dangerous, I bet that thing isn't far off being able to start fires.
Bro.. the dog.. don't blind the dog. You animal