Lasers | SciShow Tangents Podcast

In all of science, there are very few things conceptually cooler than lasers. A beam of light you can use to blast aliens? Heck yeah! But are lasers actually as cool in reality as they are in science fiction? Probably not! But I guess you'll have to listen to find out for sure. Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker! A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley, Tom Mosner, and Mike A for helping to make the show possible! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents [Trivia Question] Universal Product Code first scanned in grocery store https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-180956704/ [Fact Off] Laser cooking of printed chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jct3f92rIOE https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-d-printed-chicken-dinner-cooked-by-lasers/ Laser lightning rod for deflection/protection https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2023/devier-la-foudre-grace-au-paratonnerre-laser https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/faq/ http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/cam/exhibitions/1998_12_mccollum/supplemental_didactics/21.uman2.pdf [Ask the Science Couch] Long-distance lasers and masers https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/lasers/hazards https://spie.org/news/12-09-laser-ranging?SSO=1 http://ccom.unh.edu/theme/lidar https://www.icrar.org/megamaser/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02523 [Butt One More Thing] Low-level laser therapy for butt (or any) tendons https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8886125/ https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22960-gluteal-tendinopathy http://www.utahorthopediccenters.com/hip/gluteus-medius-tendinopathy-or-dead-butt-syndrome/