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Point is (pertaining to the article) that 8-year old me would have kept that thing and I would be blind in at least one eye by now, but 40 year old me made a re
by leptons 2y ago
Point is (pertaining to the article) that 8-year old me would have kept that thing and I would be blind in at least one eye by now, but 40 year old me made a reasoned decision and gave it back.
- tombert 2y agoMeh, I'm not actually sure I agree. My laser pointer wasn't too lethal, but I did have a basic woodworking kit as well, I even had some a hand-me-down circular saw from my grandfather. My parents forced me to wear safety goggles, and I managed to avoid chopping off any of my fingers.
- leptons 2y agoCircular saws and lasers are vastly different in terms of safety. You don't have to worry about the reflection of a table saw in a mirror chopping your finger off, you just need to worry about the actual physical spinning blade, which makes a lot of noise and seems very dangerous - it makes you more cautious just by its nature. A high-power laser pointer (that is available today, not when you were a kid) is very dangerous, in that it operates silently, it's so compact it fits in your shirt pocket, and if it reflects off a surface and hits someone in the eye - which is easy to do - it can cause irreparable damage and the damage may not even be immediately realized. In the worst cases blindness is instant. There's no re-attaching a fingertip, there's no stopping the bleeding. Your eye is just forever damaged.
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