Femtosecond Lasers Used To Color Metals 166
Maximum Prophet writes "An optics professor and a postgrad have developed a way to use ultra-short pulses of laser light to etch nano features into the surface of metals so that they can absorb or reflect specific wavelengths of light. This is very similar to the way that butterflies get the color in their wings."
WOW! (Score:5, Funny)
How could you possibly mention lasers and insects (Score:1, Funny)
I, for one (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OK, I didn't read the FA yet.... (Score:2, Funny)
Oblig. XKCD (Score:5, Funny)
Sure it was the butterfly (Score:5, Funny)
Colour me cynical (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WOW! (Score:5, Funny)
taste the rainbow (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Colour me cynical (Score:3, Funny)
Hey! Where's the (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Butterflies with lasers (Score:5, Funny)
New upgrades to "Shark Army(tm)" project (Score:3, Funny)
Forget the sharks !
Let's make an army of butterflies with freakin' femto lasers on their head and take over the world with them.
poll (Score:5, Funny)
Did the poster and/or editor intentionally make the ambiguous statement about butterflies, knowing that it would lead to a discussion 80% about laser-wielding butterflies, with real article-related content left to battle with the usual jokes/OT garbage/etc for the remaining 20% of comments?
Possible Answers:
() Yes, and it's awesome.
() Yes, and it sucks.
() No, but it's awesome.
() No, and it sucks.
() CowboyNeal forced them to.
Re:Butterflies with lasers (Score:4, Funny)
Phew!
Stop playing with the timestream folks, our universe was almost pinched off in a temporal loop.
Re:WOW! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:WOW! (Score:3, Funny)
Prior Art (Score:3, Funny)
Muhammed Ali vs the CD (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WOW! (Score:2, Funny)
Double negative... Must - not - not - imagine - this - scenario
uh huh... (Score:3, Funny)
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