duFontaine
Newly Enlightened
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2006
- Messages
- 38
The other day I was lighting matches with my Hercules350. I had a kitchen match wrapped in 2 layers of red balloon. I lit a few, and stopped to look at the aftermath and noticed some black burned plastic about the size of a grain of rice floating in the air. I took off my goggles and used my little 5mW green pen laser to shoot a piece of debri. I held the pen laser under the piece and it immediately floated straight up! I knew it could not have been the air moving it, because the air was off and the smoke from the matches was just hovering. So, I sat there thinking about what just happened ( thinking I was a total genius and about all the money...). When right at that moment I noticed it coming back down. With the laser in my hand I tried to shoot it again but I was at an angle so instead of it moving straight up, it moved to the side. Now I was excited, I was moving something with my laser at like 5-6 feet. My ceilings are 20 feet and I could "push" it all the way to the top, but as soon as the laser moved off the black soot, it would begin to fall back down.
Ok at this point I thought I was going nuts, this could not be...but it was. I called to my girlfriend to come in and check out my genius. She saw it also and was just as amazed as I was. Can anyone explain? I do remember seeing something on the Discovery Channel about 5 years ago about a man that used a laser to shoot this strange metal disc he had crafted way up into the air. Does anyone have any more info?
One more thing...After having the Hercules350 for over a month now, I've had some time to test it out. It performs better than I ever expected and am still amazed every time I turn it on. Check out the LaserGlow site for a video I sent them popping balloons at over 11ft. It should be up the next time they update their site. My most amazing feat yet was cutting through a tow strap which was thicker than a seatbelt. I'll send a video of this shortly.
Thanks,
duFontaine
Ok at this point I thought I was going nuts, this could not be...but it was. I called to my girlfriend to come in and check out my genius. She saw it also and was just as amazed as I was. Can anyone explain? I do remember seeing something on the Discovery Channel about 5 years ago about a man that used a laser to shoot this strange metal disc he had crafted way up into the air. Does anyone have any more info?
One more thing...After having the Hercules350 for over a month now, I've had some time to test it out. It performs better than I ever expected and am still amazed every time I turn it on. Check out the LaserGlow site for a video I sent them popping balloons at over 11ft. It should be up the next time they update their site. My most amazing feat yet was cutting through a tow strap which was thicker than a seatbelt. I'll send a video of this shortly.
Thanks,
duFontaine