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Kinda wild you can just order an astronomy laser
(hexbear.net)
Guy who firebomed sam altmans house: "shit that's a way better idea"
I wonder what happened to her
According to herself she got told to stop posting on social media by the cops, and while she could leave China her partner couldn't so she just chose to not post any more.
iirc the pretense was some petty shit like a company being mad about some review she had done.
the claim by chuds is that the seeseepee is forcing her because of no free speech
she also implausibly claimed you could derail a train with 3d printed plastic so I'm not sure how much stock to take in this
You can stop most trains in Poland with a Chinese radio and a wav file
Maybe a high strength resin bed printed wedge might possibly have a chance of maybe doing something but I doubt it. Also, it's way easier to just pull a few spikes and spread the rails.
I don't know, but the relative ease of acquiring dangerous lasers has spawned a genre of YouTube video I am quite fond of.
Because Americans are too clueless to understand what lasers can do to aircraft and instead we just shoot at them with rifles.
Children of Kali 2: Class IV Boogaloo
recently one guy got a hit on the firefighting plane, fuck him but also that's a tough hit to make.
I've gotta assume most low flying aircraft draw low caliber fire from yokels basically non-stop
I didn't save the post but it's because all their instruments/cameras that can detect it are seeing a bright dot directly where it's coming from. There was an image attached of a night vision type camera and one house in particular looked like it was shining the sun at the plane
Yeah don't shine this at aircraft, especially military aircraft. They have shit that'll zero in on the location that you were lasering them from.
Or if you do do it from the backyard of a guy you don't like.
(This is not actual advise, do not do this)
You can just buy blood and get it shipped. You can go on the internet right now and order blood right now and get it delivered to you, and you can specify what kind of blood and if the person should have specific diseases.
suppose i have a standard barrel or trash can that fits about 2/3 of an adult war criminal, head first. can i order enough blood to drown them or are we talking about lab test quantities i'd have to water down?
What's your budget?
well i need to rent a van and hire a couple goons so, let's say $200?
No drowning is gonna be happening at those prices.
Those aren't union goon rates and I'm not supporting scabs
i meant 200 bucks for drownin' blood. the goons will get scale or do it for the love of the game if they hate the target enough
Really says a lot about modern gooning that we're seriously talking about gooning for "exposure" on hexbear dot com, smdh my damn head
Some astrophotography nerds will use a laser to align their equatorial mount for proper star tracking. I use a polar alignment scope instead of a laser, but there are several non-GOTO eq mounts you can still pick up in 2026 that use a laser pointed up into the sky for an alignment w the North Star/Sigma Octantis.
Wait how does that work? I shine the laser into the north star, and how does that relate to calibrating my mount?
It's a very very rudimentary way of doing it. Cheaper, low end eq mounts do this. I think iOptron offers it still on some of their lower end stuff. The low end stuff is mean for wide field astrophotography, like Milky Way photos as opposed to stuff like nebula photos, and milky way photography is done w wide-angle lenses so half assed accurate polar alignment, like what you'd get w a laser is accurate enough for something like milky way photography with a 35mm lens. You won't be shooting 2 minute exposures w a laser aligned eq mount, but you certainly can do 20-30 second exposures w a wide angle lens, on a horribly aligned scope before you get star trailing.
Laser is integrated into eq mount. Point laser at North Star. Once aligned, you use a ball mount to get the camera on whatever you're looking at, then once aligned the head just rotates at the same speed the earth turns.
It really is just pointing the laser at the North Star as best you can.
but like.. how does that work?
By shooting the frickin' North Star with frickin' lasers
Through geometry, you can make an equatorial mount rotate at the same speed as all stars in the sky, which is the Earth's sidereal rotation rate. If you align the mount to the axis of Earth's rotation, it'll do so in parallel with the stars so any camera mounted will be able to get long exposures without blurring due to relative motion.
You can pin down the axis of rotation with some trigonometry but you can also do it quick and dirty by sticking a laser on the mount's rotational axis and pointing it more or less at Polaris or the Southern Cross if you're on the south side of the equator. If you've got a fancier telescope you'll just type in your coordinates and it'll automatically align.
ok i was thinking like it's relying on the laser reflecting back.. but its just following the path of the laser right? i've got the dumb
Yeah you just point it until it points mostly at Polaris
Lol that was exactly my thought too, and that's why I asked the question.
Fascinating. Thanks for taking the time. Back in middle school I was part of the astronomy club, and we'd calibrate our equatorial mount by using a little telescope with a reticle pointed to a known coordinate or star in the sky. It was such a pain goddamn.
The laser isn't for alignment or tracking. It is used as a guide source for adaptive optics systems to correct for atmospheric distortions.
No, the laser is used for polar alignment. It's not correcting for distortions. Thats what image stacking and post processing is for.
It is quite literally pointing it at the North Star or Polaris Australis to get on a polar alignment.
You aren't doing two minute nebula photos w it, but you can get aligned good enough to take 20 second photos w a wide angle fast lens.
Backyardastrophotography and Nebula Photos have a video or two showing them doing this exact thing on YT, with a laser if you need reference
adaptive optics
I'm using a DSLR, not a telescope
There are easier ways to blind pilots
I tried giving them methanol but they drink too much ethanol and it didn't work
I suggest pointy stick
Because nobody wants to go to jail and purchases of things like a laser online are incredibly easy to trace
especially used bluray players are tracked vigorously lmao.
The problem with not wanting people to carry out wanton acts of violent sabotage is that when I want to carry out targeted acts of sabotage, it's much much harder
Ir lasers (especially 1064, but one can acquire co2 as well under engraving legend) are in more things than you think, but require educated hands and protections, i’m somewhat surprised they haven’t been used against cops/cameras/starting fires
There was one chud claiming to be using lasers to blind cops in 2020. Last I heard he was pinched for a double murder.
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