RE: OT: Green Laser Pointers

Fun idea! We can do it on the side of Darren's tent (all night long)! ;-)

> Darren wrote;
>
> Of course we could just bring a whole pile of GLPs to GSSP and have a
> laser shootout! (JOKING!).
>
> **************
>
> Last year's TSP was almost a total rainout.
>
> So, with nothing better to do at night, on the upper field there really
> was a major GL shootout. Larry Mitchell had just bought a very powerful
> green laser (50 mw?), as had several others there, and the sky was
> criss-crossed with green sabers for hours. The low clouds were all lit
> up.
>
> Several people got together and actually drew a face on a large tree,
> with one guy quickly drawing a large circle over and over again for the
> head, and another couple of people drawing smaller circles for the eyes,
> others making the nose and eyes and hair, and finally someone else
> taking a 2 or 3 second exposure of the final creation. They used the
> picture in a slide show the next day, it was supposed to be about things
> observed the night before...
>
> Very entertaining, for a while...
>
> \Paul A
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