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Billion-times more efficient nuclear fusion could be unlocked with low-frequency lasers
(interestingengineering.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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Lasers make everything better
They can even cheer up ill-tempered sea bass.
Everyone needs a frickin bone tossed their way here and there.
Except blindness.
Idk man lasers definitely made my vision better. Better than 20 20 now
How much did that cost? I would just be afraid of them making it worse with a mistake, but I knew a girl that said it was the best decision she ever made.
$6.5k AUD 3 years ago for lasik. Prk would have been 5k. I wouldn't be worried about mistakes, the opthamologist does the procedure like 15 times a week and the laser machine is tracking your eye movement at 1kHz. Mistakes are almost unheard of. Where your issue may lie is if your eye is physically not good for the surgery, like if your prescription is too strong or cornea too thin. They do a bunch of tests and discuss what's right for you.
I think...$5,500 in 2005? Probably not relevant to today's prices. I would imagine the equipment has made things a bit safer and easier, which would probably ... Well I'm sure it wouldn't drop the price because who ever does that? But it probably kept it from rising too much.
If it's merely legal blindness and not total blindness, they can still make it better.
That's just how cool they are. Gotta specify the type of blindness, even.
Oh there are lasers big enough to cure everything. Well, the person doesn't worry about the disease and you can't get it. Yes the person does disintegrate in the process but they are working on it. No wait, they're done working on it. Anyway, anyone else needs curing? No? Its a laser miracle!
Anyway seriously, lasers are dangerous if the person using them does not known what they're doing. If that's you, stop.
Mark rober has a laser versus lightning video, they test burning through stuff with a powerful laser and tesla coil or whatever.
It is cool, too bad eye protection costs so much, as much as the laser itself I hear.