This marks the longest one-way communication via laser, as the light made its way across the 240, 000 miles between the Earth and Moon.
The successful transmission is a significant achievement -- which Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci would have surely appreciated -- because it marks "the first time anyone has achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances, " said principal investigator David Smith of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Peers and industry observers characterized our focus along the way as laser-like, unrelenting and zealous.
The reason is that skin does not reflect the laser in the same way as most other objects - meaning for those wishing to evade the camera's gaze, stripping naked is an option.
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One of the laser sensors may find its way onto a craft vying for Google's X Prize, with the results used to determine where vessels can touch down whilst keeping a safe distance from Apollo landing sites.
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She even mends a frayed flag edge, a nice way of showing her laser-like focus.
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The technologies that run the world today (like the Internet, the computer and the laser) are not used in the way intended by those who invented them.
Ours is on a rack too shallow and low to accommodate a laser printer, and placed out of the way to minimize interference with the signal from TV sets, cordless phones and microwave ovens.
Meanwhile a team of Swiss researchers are harnessing rays of light for an entirely different purpose -- they've figured out a way to create rain clouds by shooting laser beams into the sky.
By that way, it would look like a fluorescent tube or laser.
Another is to find a way to pump the nanocrystals electrically, rather than with an external laser.
Next door a laser cutter is zapping an etching into a glass bottle, and across the way someone is carving elegant curved strips of wood to make a wine carrier.
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This will be done using laser beams, which will zip between the satellites and form fringes in the same way as starlight.
By tuning the quantum cascade laser and measuring how much of the infra-red radiation is absorbed on its way to a detector, hazardous gases in between can be identified.
Back in 1990 I printed to a crappy black and white laser printer that frequently jammed, had an incomprehensible user interface, and never worked the way I wanted it to.
But until recently, the only way to make lasers powerful enough to blow something tough into pieces was to use a chemical laser, which produces its energy through a chemical reaction.
She suggests one way to get started is to get an Arduino and learn how to make parts that would be laser cut or 3d printed.
But they could find no way through and their frustration resulted in lapses in discipline, which Sinfield punished despite complaining about a laser beam being shone into his eyes.
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