Mellotronists

>        Light? I'm awed by those who manipulate electricity.
>      Sorcery, I call it. The work of Beelzebub. I mean, WHY,
>      exactly, do a bunch of particles too small to see zooming
>      along a wire make things work? And why can they kill you?
>      I've had the water analogy explained to me a million times,
>      but I still don't get it. I'm going to go and live in a
>      cave. Andy T.  M400 #1145: Wondering if steam power might
>      work.
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>      Greetings Andy and gang ,  Almost everyone these days
>      encounters lasers whether they realise it or not. Every
>      CD/DVD
>      player, autofocus on some cameras, and your high-speed
>      fiber-optics commlink use semiconductor lasers.
>
>      Let's not forget the little laser pointers used in
>      conference
>      rooms,power-tools, surveying gear, etc.
>
>      Lasers can heal in medicine,can measure the very small
>      as in interferometers,can etch photomasks for
>      semiconductors,
>      and also monitor your speed on the motorways.
>
>      When kicked-up a few notches,they can precisely cut
>      metals,plastics,glass etc . And create awesome visual
>      displays.
>      If any of you have the Pink Floyd video "The Delicate Sound
>      Of Thunder ", you can see a stagehand lighting his cigarette
>
>      using a laser beam . This is part of the intro credits.
>
>      My favorite apps. of little HeNe lasers at home is to
>      tease the cats with moving points of light. And to
>      temporarily
>      extinguish streetlights by pointing the beam precisely at
>      the
>      photocontrol atop the streetlight.
>
>      As with everything   produced, lasers can be used for good
>      or bad .
>      I think it's safe to say that the lasers of sci-fi films
>      blasting
>      everything/everybody in their path are still in far
>      future.....I hope.
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>      Until then, I'm looking forward to a "LaserTron" that
>      creates its own visual light show when played. "Brightest"
>      8 seconds ever !   Cheers, --JK--(incoherent lighting
>      collector)
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