Lasers to remove paint

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I have only skimmed an article about this, but apparently something is in the works that can remove a layer of rubber from metal via laser.

I know rubber is not paint, but could you imagine a hand-held laser where you point and shoot a beam and only the paint gets removed?

Great use of technology IMHO, should be fun to watch it develop....

MF
 
Not sure about pain but...

You could make someone's head explode!
For a laser to kill someone it essentially needs to be hot enough to boil or burn the tissue. It would take about a 1kW laser to boil through someone’s eye to their brain in a reasonable amount of time, meaning they probably couldn’t get away. Each cat toy level laser pointer is roughly 5mW. It would take 200,000 laser pointers all focusing through a lens to an exact point to create a laser powerful enough to kill. Each laser pointer (assuming the ones from laser pens since the pen tip is smaller than the cat toy laser) is 5mm across. So if you had 200,000 of them they would be in a grid about 7’ x7’. To get them to focus on a single spot, though, they would need to be in a semi circle with a radius of about 5.5’. So if you wanted to create a death ray with laser pointers, you could buy 200,000 laser pointers, mount them on a piece of a sphere with radius 5.5’, aim them all through a lens and ask your victim to sit very, very still.
 
Stan said:
So if you wanted to create a death ray with laser pointers, you could buy 200,000 laser pointers, mount them on a piece of a sphere with radius 5.5’, aim them all through a lens and ask your victim to sit very, very still.
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While you and 199,999 friends push the buttons, beware of the attracted cats and puppies. :lol:
 
This is what it is....

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But I didn't know we were taking about melting 'men'.....reminds me of 'Clayface' from Bataman animated series (they should portray him in a real movie sometime IMHO....then maybe we can see this laser at work! :roll:)

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-M
 
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