Class 4 lasers are getting into the area where even looking at diffuse reflections has a risk of damaging your eye, without the beam itself hitting you. Plus there is always some risk of getting hit by the beam directly if something it is reflecting off of moves, or you reach into the beam forgetting to take off a ring. I don't see any laser goggles here, and while you can frequently get by without them, it is a gamble most of the time. There are plenty of stories of researchers going years with bad goggle habits and then suddenly getting serious eye damage that could have been prevented, some of which are plastered on lab doors and safety cabinets to remind people why they should be wearing their goggles (I made the mistake of letting my wife read one once...now the laser is the second biggest danger to not wearing goggles).
Once upon a time the people of Generation X were called "slackers." We had no direction in life, felt disenfranchised, and went from one dead-end job to the next. Copeland wrote a book about us, and Kevin Smith made Clerks about us. Our music wasn't as good as the hippie generation, and of course the parents of the hippies are now known as the Greatest Generation.
Once upon a time the youth of the 1960s were called hippies. "Turn on, tune in, drop out" was the mantra of the day. They joined communes, did drugs, and went to mass marches. They only thought of today, and never tomorrow. People went on TV and wrote long editorials about the death of American culture. It was all Dr. Spock's fault for encouraging permissiveness and an expectation of instant gratification.
Once upon a time the youth were called greasers ... beatniks ... flappers ... the list goes on.
So to the Millennials, welcome to the club. On behalf of history, I apologize. Promise me that in 30 years you won't write the same stories about the next generation?
So would you do away with social security or military survivors benefits for spouses? The right to make medical decisions for a comatose spouse? The right to add a spouse to your workplace benefits? The tax benefits? All those would be gone if the legal, civil, government-approved concept of marriage was done away with.
It depends on how many hours had passed between when he set them and when he had first discovered the issue. 1 hour? Then the clocks were already 3 minutes apart.
Around here, cereal goes straight into a plastic container (air-tight, bug-free); the box straight into recycling. Damn packaging. (Yeah, I know, prevents crushing; needed for marketing...)
Once upon a time the youth of the 1960s were called hippies. "Turn on, tune in, drop out" was the mantra of the day. They joined communes, did drugs, and went to mass marches. They only thought of today, and never tomorrow. People went on TV and wrote long editorials about the death of American culture. It was all Dr. Spock's fault for encouraging permissiveness and an expectation of instant gratification.
Once upon a time the youth were called greasers ... beatniks ... flappers ... the list goes on.
So to the Millennials, welcome to the club. On behalf of history, I apologize. Promise me that in 30 years you won't write the same stories about the next generation?
but I love what the guy's done to help those people. at least for a while.