Snow Crash

18 responses to “Snow Crash”

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   The Rocketeer

   Sep 11, 2005 at 12:52 am

   Did you get a green laser pointer, Steve?

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   biotron

   Sep 11, 2005 at 1:31 am

   delicious 🙂

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3. 

   jurvetson

   Sep 11, 2005 at 4:18 am

   biotron: …like a snow cone headache for a surfer

   Rocketeer: better yet, I borrowed one. I was sitting in a presentation watching this bright green laser dot on the screen and thinking about this shot…

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4. 

   The Rocketeer

   Sep 11, 2005 at 5:00 am

   Although it is hard to capture on digital cameras, the green lasers are so much brighter to our eyes than red lasers that you can actually see the beam in a dark room. Especially if it is a dusty (or smoky) room.

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5. 

   biotron

   Sep 11, 2005 at 9:59 am

   i received a mild lecture from "Mr Physics" about frying pixels when i tried the same thing!

   actually – the comment was placed on a bogus attempt…

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6. 

   Michael Nagel

   Sep 11, 2005 at 5:34 pm

   Surreal. Green. Great.

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   jurvetson

   Sep 11, 2005 at 5:49 pm

   biotron: green laser tweezers can fry DNA too. Don’t stare at this image for too long…. Snow Crash is a metavirus…. =)

   Rocketeer: The CCD also has 2x as many green receptors as red or blue:
   

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   cszar

   Sep 12, 2005 at 5:33 pm

   Cool shot. Don’t want to try it with my D70 though.
   Green Lasers are great for lighting things up too:

   

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9. 

   flawless chin

   Sep 12, 2005 at 7:48 pm

   very interesting. the light is a living synthetic thing.

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10. 

    spyzter

    Sep 12, 2005 at 10:58 pm

    Awesome. I wonder what would happen to a Foveon-based three color sensor.

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11. 

    Gwênlyn

    Sep 13, 2005 at 7:48 pm

    Say, that looks like your photostream.

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12. 

    testone22

    Sep 17, 2005 at 5:03 am

    this is perhaps the single best image of laser speckle I have ever seen. Would you consider changing the license to a CC version?

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13. 

    jurvetson

    Sep 17, 2005 at 2:42 pm

    funny thing…. I am wearing a CC shirt as I read this. Sure. I have always thought of my photos as free with attribution; good idea to make clear to all.

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14. 

    herval

    Sep 17, 2005 at 6:47 pm

    Is it possible to damage the CCD this way?
    great idea (and shot) 🙂

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15. 

    fatllama

    Sep 19, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    Rocketeer: The CCD also has 2x as many green receptors as red or blue

    Wow, excellent trivia!

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16. 

    fatllama

    Sep 19, 2005 at 4:21 pm

    Instead of going for a CC license, perhaps you should have been thinking about a patent instead.

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17. 

    john curley

    Oct 25, 2005 at 4:45 pm

    if you shine one into a translucent globe, it looks like this:

    

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18. 

    Gary Bridgman

    Jun 16, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    WHITE SKY (Seveneves ref, if you haven’t read it yet)
    — @root2702

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