The Closest Thing To a Lightsaber Now For Sale

[ark123]

It's not more dangerous than a tazer.

how so?

the range and accuracy on this thing has to be ridiculous, and it literally burns/can start shit on fire just from pointing it at it/you.

a taser will hurt like a fucking ***** yes but science proves, light is the fastest thing known to ma, and to have that in the hand of hand of a douchebag...

A tazer can stop your heart, killing you on the spot.
This can only kill you if you're hanging by a string of wax from a 18 story building's window.
You know what can burn things on contact? A match. That will ignite anything combustible, while there's a chance this laser might do the same. And again, people here seem to think this thing doesn't lose any power over millions of light years. It loses potency REALLY fast the further away it is from the target.

yes it CAN, but doesn't mean it will, you'd have to be sitting there upping the voltage on that thing pretty damn good before it really did some damage permanently

well if someone even just waves it by your eye thats going to cause some fucking massive burning/possibly damage to your eye, and thats just waving it by it, they have stated if you obviously get someone good in the eye it'll permanently fuck it up, and like i said with how accurate and fast it is that thing is extremely dangerous, and yes i know it does, thats clearly obvious, but who is going to be doing that over a mile stretch? it'll get people good at a good 50 yard distance for sure, you can't say that about a taser (at least your average hand one, maybe a launcher)

If you're doing this from a few feet away there are hundreds of chemicals you can just spray on someone's eyes and blind them.
Look, all I'm saying is that this is *not* a Phaser, like most people seem to think. This is not a weapon. It's a toy, and it can cause damage, but as a weapon it's a really shitty one. Compare it to a BB gun if you want.

 

[Eri]

Ok. Can someone please give an accurate description of HOW dangerous this actually is. It's not a lightsaber so I doubt you could cut someone in two. I know it will burn you, but I doubt you will spontaneously burn into flames.

This is a reminder to all the people who are gonna say the forums ninja'd this.

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Actually they do as I think a few people have been suspended or put on probation for continually saying that.

Sure. If you leave it on your skin, it will grow hot over 10 or so seconds and you'll pull your hand out of the way. If you leave it on your couch, it will make a black point. If you look right into it from a close distance, you'll be blinded after 20 seconds or so.
A knife is way more dangerous than this.

Wrong. One look at this beam causes instant blindless. Putting this beam on the skin will not only burn but possibly give skin cancer. This isn't some basic laser pointer.

 

[Therumancer]

Seems pretty awesome to me, though I imagine it's only a matter of time before we see massive regulation on them, never mind the production of even more powerful versions.

I'd very much like to own a laser pistol at some point.

 

[F-I-D-O]

I'm being laid off and can afford one! Screw food and rent, I can make more money with that thing! In a few weeks DC area residents will read about a 'comic book style crime' when a 'costumed assailant robs a bank using a dangerous laser' xD

It would be easy as hell to trace it back to me [especially since I just divulged my master plan] but it would still be pretty sweet to go down into the '...zuh?' page of history as the first bank robber to use lasers xD

You'd probably warp reality enough to have batman jump off the pages of a comic book to beat you up. But that would be a funny as hell news story.
Man beaten by Batman after robbing a bank using a laser. We blame video games.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I know that someone is going to get killed with one of these some day.

 

[Deofuta]

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Wow that sounds very odd to have somehow become on sale and being so dangerous.

Also, gratz on the gold name!

 

[The Ambrosian]

If this hasn't been banned by the time i'm 18, I'm defiantly getting it.

 

[ark123]

Wrong. One look at this beam causes instant blindless. Putting this beam on the skin will not only burn but possibly give skin cancer. This isn't some basic laser pointer.

Really, mr scientist? How would a concentrated beam of light cause cancer?

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

It's not more dangerous than a tazer.

how so?

the range and accuracy on this thing has to be ridiculous, and it literally burns/can start shit on fire just from pointing it at it/you.

a taser will hurt like a fucking ***** yes but science proves, light is the fastest thing known to ma, and to have that in the hand of hand of a douchebag...

A tazer can stop your heart, killing you on the spot.
This can only kill you if you're hanging by a string of wax from a 18 story building's window.
You know what can burn things on contact? A match. That will ignite anything combustible, while there's a chance this laser might do the same. And again, people here seem to think this thing doesn't lose any power over millions of light years. It loses potency REALLY fast the further away it is from the target.

yes it CAN, but doesn't mean it will, you'd have to be sitting there upping the voltage on that thing pretty damn good before it really did some damage permanently

well if someone even just waves it by your eye thats going to cause some fucking massive burning/possibly damage to your eye, and thats just waving it by it, they have stated if you obviously get someone good in the eye it'll permanently fuck it up, and like i said with how accurate and fast it is that thing is extremely dangerous, and yes i know it does, thats clearly obvious, but who is going to be doing that over a mile stretch? it'll get people good at a good 50 yard distance for sure, you can't say that about a taser (at least your average hand one, maybe a launcher)

If you're doing this from a few feet away there are hundreds of chemicals you can just spray on someone's eyes and blind them.
Look, all I'm saying is that this is *not* a Phaser, like most people seem to think. This is not a weapon. It's a toy, and it can cause damage, but as a weapon it's a really shitty one.

and what i was getting at is this thing is at the speed of light, and its extremely accurate, so where you point, it will be there within milliseconds and thats much faster than anything else thats a weapon, if someone had something out and tried to spray, it'd be super easy for me to close my eyes or block it before it reached me, believe me, people have tried to spray shit on me "for a few laughs" (as in some really low grade quality mace stuff), so this thing is decently dangerous, and it does die over time yes, but it does not die fast enough that it is still practical to get someone across the street/in a car/ in a window/etc... while a tazer you gotta know what your doing and have a decent aim because its one shot,unlike the lazer that sends a constant flow.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

This is stupid. NO ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BUY THIS . It's stupidly dangerous and should not be allowed for general publics consumption, and since there are already industrial lasers, theis has no reason for existing. There is literally no point for this things existance, and for everyone that wants one because they look cool, there will be a dickhead who misuses it.

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you said it dude

 

[razer17]

As for the hand thing, no, no they could not block it. Again, to quote "If the laser is sufficiently powerful, permanent damage can occur within a fraction of a second, faster than the blink of an eye". A class 4 laser is such a device. "Sufficiently powerful visible to near infrared laser radiation (400-1400 nm) will penetrate the eyeball and may cause heating of the retina" You will note that the laser in question is 445nm, ergo in the category of penetrating the eyeball.

I'll repeat this one last time. This thing drastically loses power over large distances. This is why every youtube video you can find will show something being burnt a few feet away at most. You will *not* be blinded by this if it hits your eye from across the street for a moment. If you do linger on it, because you're retarded or something, then yeah, this could burn you.

Did you even read any of that link I sent you? If a laser can cause flash blindness in a pilot from 400yards, and a particularly powerful laser, i.e this one, can cause permanent retinal damage at the same range, and more serious damage closer up, of course it will cause irrevocable eye damage across a street.

 

[Venatio]

Would'nt this kind of thing be... regulated? You cant even own brass knuckles in the U.S., would they let someone carry this around for instance without a permit?

Well, it would actually depend on whether or not the government takes the time to care. Usually involves a scared Democrat (I voted for Obama) running off with a scare campaign on this sort of thing.

 

[Eri]

Wrong. One look at this beam causes instant blindless. Putting this beam on the skin will not only burn but possibly give skin cancer. This isn't some basic laser pointer.

Really, mr scientist? How would a concentrated beam of light cause cancer?

The same way anything that burns you has a chance to.

 

[ark123]

Wrong. One look at this beam causes instant blindless. Putting this beam on the skin will not only burn but possibly give skin cancer. This isn't some basic laser pointer.

Really, mr scientist? How would a concentrated beam of light cause cancer?

The same way anything that burns you has a chance to.

Really? So let me see if I get this straight. If I bite into a hot pocket that was in the microwave too long, there's a good chance I'm going to get cancer on the roof of my mouth?
=D

 

[Eri]

Wrong. One look at this beam causes instant blindless. Putting this beam on the skin will not only burn but possibly give skin cancer. This isn't some basic laser pointer.

Really, mr scientist? How would a concentrated beam of light cause cancer?

The same way anything that burns you has a chance to.

Really? So let me see if I get this straight. If I bite into a hot pocket that was in the microwave too long, there's a good chance I'm going to get cancer on the roof of my mouth?
=D

Stop being a smart ass and playing semantics. If there was no chance of cancer do you honestly think they would put it on the label?

 

[Jared]

Until we can make tge real thing that's pretty awesome! I certainly wouldn't mind owning it!

 

[Danpascooch]

Do not taunt the happy fun ball.

YAY! Someone else who remembers old SNL Digital Shorts!

Anyway, what exactly does "diffuse" viewing mean? does it mean getting hit in the eye by a reflection? Or does it mean just LOOKING at it, because if it's the latter, than that's fucking scary.

 

[Danpascooch]

Wrong. One look at this beam causes instant blindless. Putting this beam on the skin will not only burn but possibly give skin cancer. This isn't some basic laser pointer.

Really, mr scientist? How would a concentrated beam of light cause cancer?

The same way anything that burns you has a chance to.

Really? So let me see if I get this straight. If I bite into a hot pocket that was in the microwave too long, there's a good chance I'm going to get cancer on the roof of my mouth?
=D

Stop being a smart ass and playing semantics. If there was no chance of cancer do you honestly think they would put it on the label?

You can get cancer from a toaster, everything has a chance of causing cancer, and yes, they probably would put it on the label even if they didn't have to, because it makes it sound even more intense.

Think about it, saying it causes burns (which is true I'm sure) makes ME want it because it sounds like an insanely intense laser.

 

[Omega V]

Wrong. One look at this beam causes instant blindless. Putting this beam on the skin will not only burn but possibly give skin cancer. This isn't some basic laser pointer.

Really, mr scientist? How would a concentrated beam of light cause cancer?

The same way anything that burns you has a chance to.

so burns cause cancer now? really? so if I burn my finger on my stove I'll get cancer?

look unless this thing emits large amounts of ionizing radiation its not going to do squat. Blue frequency light is NOT ionizing.

 

[Danpascooch]

Here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-UxUetEaJ8
This is what a class 4 laser does if it's shone on your skin for a couple of seconds.
Nothing.

There are different kinds of class four lasers, and I am more inclined to believe a safety waiver given by the site selling the item, than a Youtube video from a guy I've never heard of with barely 100 views.