Error in the text: 1000mW laser with 532nm wavelength which is green light.

1000nm light is infrared.

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[–] 48 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    but that doesn't sound as cool

    which also means anywhere that sells them would advertise it as 1000 [GOLDEN PRESENTERS VOICE WITH HIGH REVERB] mW and I feel a lot of people wouldn't know the difference.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    0.7376 ft lbf/s (foot pounds-force per second)

    It just rolls off your tongue!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    It sounds exactly as cool as it is. 1000mW reads as 10^3 ×10^(-3)W, which reads pretty pointless. At some point in science you just write everything in scientific notation and remove the multipliers altogether.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    You're right, but for something like a consumer laser pointer that's typically rated in mW it makes sense to write 1000 mW and not 1 W.
    It makes clear how vastly different that is from the regular ones.

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