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Charles Townes, 99, inventor of laser, dies
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| 01/28/2015
| Gregory Bull
Posted on 01/28/2015 2:20:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
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01/28/2015 2:22:03 PM PST
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SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: SeekAndFind
SOURCE: http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/nobelist-charles-townes-inventor-of-laser-and-id-sympathizer-dies-at-99/
Charles Townes was quite sympathetic to the idea of Intelligent Design.
Townes (19152015) was interviewed in 2005 in a UC Bekeley article:
Q: Should intelligent design be taught alongside Darwinian evolution in schools as religious legislators have decided in Pennsylvania and Kansas?
Townes: “I think its very unfortunate that this kind of discussion has come up. People are misusing the term intelligent design to think that everything is frozen by that one act of creation and that theres no evolution, no changes. Its totally illogical in my view. Intelligent design, as one sees it from a scientific point of view, seems to be quite real. This is a very special universe: its remarkable that it came out just this way. If the laws of physics werent just the way they are, we couldnt be here at all. The sun couldnt be there, the laws of gravity and nuclear laws and magnetic theory, quantum mechanics, and so on have to be just the way they are for us to be here.”
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01/28/2015 2:24:15 PM PST
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SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: SeekAndFind
The laser was invented just in time to be used in “Goldfinger.”
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01/28/2015 2:25:46 PM PST
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PJ-Comix
(Coakley/Gruber 2016!!!)
To: SeekAndFind
Some postulate an infinite number of universes to live with that dilemma, which must send Occam spinning in his grave.
To: SeekAndFind
He was an interesting guy. I met him once at an American Philosophical Society meeting.
To: PJ-Comix
RE: The laser was invented just in time to be used in Goldfinger.
If Goldfinger were smart, James Bond would have died with a bullet in his head.
Instead, he had to pussy-foot around and try to scare Bond and say "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die".
BTW, that's true for every single villain in the Bond universe. Instead of shooting him when they had him, they put him in some sort of torture chamber, leave him alone, only to allow him to escape with some gadget invented by Q.
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01/28/2015 2:30:59 PM PST
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SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: SeekAndFind
I had surgery on both eyes with what they called a “YAG” laser. Just as the Dr. said, it was a piece of cake.
I read up on it and before lasers, it was a difficult operation often accompanied by problems.
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01/28/2015 2:31:26 PM PST
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yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: PJ-Comix; RaceBannon
The laser was invented just in time to be used in Goldfinger.And the pilot episode of Johnny Quest, my favorite show at the time.
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01/28/2015 2:35:57 PM PST
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SpeakerToAnimals
(I hope to earn a name in battle)
To: yarddog
I had surgery on both eyes with what they called a YAG laser. Just as the Dr. said, it was a piece of cake.
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I'm sure there was a reason they didn't call it the GAY laser....
To: SeekAndFind
Get the villain to monologue, then you’re golden.
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01/28/2015 2:49:43 PM PST
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IDFbunny
To: yarddog
a “YAG” laser is one whose frequency and other characteristics is governed by its use of Yttrium Aluminum Garnet; a synthetic gemstone grown in and crystallized out of high-temp furnaces.
My Dad used to have a synthetic gemstone business and peddled chunks of YAG for home-brew gemstone faceters to cut up.
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01/28/2015 2:49:49 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: SeekAndFind
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01/28/2015 2:51:41 PM PST
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clamper1797
(I'm a Tea Party Conservative ... in my opinion that makes me "Politically Correct")
To: SeekAndFind
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Thanks, that is interesting.
I simply had to stare at a dot for maybe 30 seconds and I kept seeing and hearing red dot flashes. No pain at all.
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01/28/2015 2:54:48 PM PST
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yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: SeekAndFind
Movie villains always talk too much.
They seem to have an insatiable need to justify themselves, with delusions of grandeur and self importance. Me, Me, Me, I and I.
It reminds me of something I heard recently, can't quite put my finger on it...
About the laser technology, that sure turned out to be massively useful.
Charles Townes, Thank You and R.I.P.
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01/28/2015 3:07:26 PM PST
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BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: SeekAndFind
called it a maser Glad he settled on "laser." "Hand me my maser gun" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
To: BitWielder1
I hope he’s given a national state funeral.
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01/28/2015 3:10:49 PM PST
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: SeekAndFind
There was an SNL skit where the villians were on The Tonight Show saying those exact things. Mike Myers played the bald SPECTRE character with the white cat (best one to me was Donald Pleasence).
Myers used this as his “Dr. Evil” character in the Austin Powers movies.
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01/28/2015 3:11:20 PM PST
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Fledermaus
(The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
To: SeekAndFind
I went to the Univ of Ark in the late 70’s and their pyschics department were doing laser research. They were instrumental in the development of making laser useful for things like dental/eye work, etc.
I did two semesters on work study and the department and got to see a lot of their work. It was fun.
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01/28/2015 3:13:49 PM PST
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Fledermaus
(The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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