Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

• Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t see the things, you see the light reflecting off of them

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t look into the laser with remaining eye.

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  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not what the word “see” means.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah yes, that’s famously why screens literally build tiny versions of the world inside them. We don’t see the light, we see the objects!

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      • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The light that enters your eye carries enormous amounts of information with it. Your eye and a small portion of your brain comprise a highly specific tool for extracting a small subset of that information and processing it. The information you use is only related to the last object the light interacted with, not the light itself (with the small exception being the “brightness” - that has nothing to do with the object).

        No one claims to hear the air in their ears rather than the violin that is being played nearby. That’s just not what the word “hear” means.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is literally activating the rods and cones based on photons hitting them. Do you think we don’t smell smells either?

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      • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The word “see” predates any concept of rods or cones or photons by thousands of years. It has nothing to do with those things.

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• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Put your eye in the beam and tell me that again…

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• Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What

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  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s true! When it’s dark out it isn’t because there’s no light, but because you’re trapped in the void!

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  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can’t see light. You can see things illuminated by light.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You see the light waves reflected off of various materials.

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      • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s it. And, indeed, you see light. That’s what your eyes do.

        Little smart ass knowhow: With your hands, you can feel light. (You feel infrared light as heat. Not visible light though. Just heat up your cooker stove and it emits a bit visible red and a lot infrared light. Don’t touch just keep your hand close to the stove. Now you feel the IR-„light“)

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    • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You swap seeing with recognizing. You recognize things. And you see light.

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      • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not what the word “see” means. You’re trying to to swap it for another word like “sense.” You see objects, not light.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You should have bolded this and done all caps.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine if they showed real physics in sci-fi movies. You’d never see any laser blasts in space, just the result of their strike.

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  • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You sure can see plasma cannons though…

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    • Arcka@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And green lasers

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      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And any color light saber.

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