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lol when I was a kid I had an small red laser and the battery was dying and the output was pathetic and I used to literally hold the laser up to my eye and stare down it. it’s a weird effect in that it makes it look like you’re looking into a space with huge volume with a small star like twinkle in the middle and fragments of light all around in this endless space
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Jan 26, 2022 18:30
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Jan 26, 2022 18:30
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check out my dads motorcycling gloves lmao 
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Jan 26, 2022 18:34
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When I was a kid and laser pointers still cost like $50, I begged my parents to buy me one that I saw in the Edmund Scientific catalog and finally at Christmas I got it from my grandpa. Nobody I knew had ever seen one before, and when I flew back even the security guys at the airport started playing with it. Of course I took it to school, and it was a completely harmless 5 mW red diode made in the USA, but as my friends and I were playing with it one of the other boys got flashed in the eyes and he got so terrified that he was going to go blind that he went home and threw up, and then his mom called and told my mom she was extremely irresponsible for letting me have something as dangerous as a laser and if her son had any eye problems they would see us in court.
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Jan 26, 2022 18:39
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edmund scientific ruled. i wanted all the cool science kits they had
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Jan 26, 2022 18:44
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Sagebrush posted:When I was a kid and laser pointers still cost like $50, I begged my parents to buy me one that I saw in the Edmund Scientific catalog and finally at Christmas I got it from my grandpa. Nobody I knew had ever seen one before, and when I flew back even the security guys at the airport started playing with it. lol this reminded me of when i was a kid in school, it was the mid 90s and these breath freshener drops were a fad. they had them on every counter in convenience stores, me and some friends used to buy them and see how many drops we could take before the mint or cinnamon flavor got too intense. then one kid in class saw that the main ingredient was alcohol, and got so scared to swallow after just 1 drop that he just let the saliva build up in his mouth until he was basically drooling every time he tried to speak. he tried asking the teacher to go use the washroom but it was just a bunch of slobber falling out of his mouth lmao.
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Jan 26, 2022 18:54
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i so badly wanted every robotics kit they sold, and the programmable arm, especially the arm. it could pick things up, how cool is that?!
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Jan 26, 2022 18:58
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turns out the arm was with you all along
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Jan 26, 2022 20:06
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Shaggar posted:i have a green laser pointer i use to scare off the geese that show up on the river did you see tom scott's video about the professional bird scarers
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Jan 27, 2022 02:57
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no, post it. i had geese that kept honking at 2am and i was gettin heated so i looked up the best way to take care of them and it turns out they fuckin hate green laser pointers. they freak the gently caress out and fly off and they dont come back. its great.
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Jan 27, 2022 03:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Ej2EtE744
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Jan 27, 2022 03:54
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that pit is cool as hell and they should let it kill and dissolve geese.
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Jan 27, 2022 04:01
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photographer I know took this picture nearby
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Feb 7, 2022 18:55
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that’s a vibe
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Feb 8, 2022 03:10
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huh, I remember reading about this way back when https://twitter.com/geoffmanaugh/status/1491823730388967444 (a few posts in this thread with more info)
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Feb 10, 2022 19:27
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on the note of searching for things in the wilderness, Tom Mahood's site is a great read. i recommend the death valley germans story, then the one about finding the crashed sr-71. he also has a brief article about bill ewasko which will have to be updated it looks like! https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/ https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/ https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/searching-for-bill-ewasko/
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Feb 10, 2022 20:18
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Tom's Manhood
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Feb 10, 2022 20:48
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 I couldn't leave the tech behind
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Feb 16, 2022 12:09
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Feb 16, 2022 15:24
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i wandered off into the woods for a few nights and for some insnaely stupid reason i opted not to take the rest of the week off 
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Feb 17, 2022 20:36
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i drove though a big wind farm to go hiking
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Feb 18, 2022 01:32
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wind farms are super cool
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Feb 18, 2022 02:59
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this one has ~150 turbines. The Wild Horse Wind & Solar Facility. I don't think I've ever seen more of them in one place before There's a visitors center but it's closed this time of year.
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Feb 18, 2022 05:28
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sounds like the perfect time to visit
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Feb 18, 2022 05:35
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:wind farms are super cool yeah, friend of mine used to design them and he still keeps me informed of turbine advances. for example it has only been relatively recently that they can throttle a clutch and take advantage of higher wind speed instead of just disconnecting the generator and letting blades spin freely if it is too windy.
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Feb 18, 2022 09:14
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:wind farms are super cool theyre killing all the birds! Not good, folks. you hate to see it
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Feb 18, 2022 14:17
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backyard camping 
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Mar 7, 2022 16:54
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working on buying a house 20 minutes from this trailhead   
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Mar 7, 2022 17:26
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wow that's incredible
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Mar 7, 2022 18:42
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Corla Plankun posted:wow that's incredible turn on your monitor
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Mar 8, 2022 00:28
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Achmed Jones posted:turn on your monitor 
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Mar 8, 2022 01:39
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bump
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Mar 13, 2022 17:37
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gently caress yeah
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Mar 13, 2022 18:00
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green river a loving deer swam by. and by swam I mean rushed along because that river was raging 
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Mar 15, 2022 09:54
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loving glorious friends
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Mar 15, 2022 11:49
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went to big thicket national forest saw this cool moth bro   saw this snake (diamondback water snake, I think?)  anyway he appeared right after we took off our shoes and waded thru that lmao. at least not poisonous.
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Mar 16, 2022 23:38
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drat that is a cool moth
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 a giant iguana on the beach! (a six-foot bit of well-washed driftwood I would haul home for the garden if I had a hatchback)
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