{"id":231,"date":"2008-04-21T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/231"},"modified":"2008-04-21T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T17:07:16","slug":"drop-the-photons-dirtbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/231","title":{"rendered":"Drop the Photons, Dirtbag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/news\/article.aspx?id=229224\">Aussie Laser-Pointer Ban<\/a> in New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>No mention if there is a power threshold.  (see update, below)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legitimate users, like astronomy enthusiasts, will have to apply for prohibited weapons permits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, mate.  You&#8217;ll need a frikkin&#8217; <em>carry permit<\/em> for your laser pointer (especially if it&#8217;s mounted on the head of an endangered shark).  &#8220;Roscoe&#8221; and &#8220;heater&#8221; are taken as nicknames for guns.  What street name can we give a laser pointer?  What about slogans?  &#8220;When laser pointers are outlawed, only outlaws will have laser pointers&#8221; doesn&#8217;t quite cut it.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to imagine using a laser pointer could affect the patellar tendon in this way.  No, not really that hard, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Update:  one article mentions class 3 and 4 lasers.  Class 3R <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laser_safety#Revised_system\">includes lasers less than 5 mW<\/a>.  Of course, with beam divergence, a laser that is dangerous in close proximity does not present the same danger at a distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie Laser-Pointer Ban in New South Wales. No mention if there is a power threshold. (see update, below) Legitimate users, like astronomy enthusiasts, will have to apply for prohibited weapons permits. That&#8217;s right, mate. You&#8217;ll need a frikkin&#8217; carry permit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,51,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-politics","category-silly","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}