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[–] 65 points 1 year ago

Can you image what kind of cult these fish will create?

ALL HAIL THE PILLAR OF CLEANSING

Frank was zapped! HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE!

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago

    Haha, that is such a cool use for laser technology and also the fish look like they are clubbing. Thanks fo sharing :)

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  • [–] 123 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    I’ve always thought a stupidly expensive but cool and helpful device would be a tabletop mosquito/fly/wasp killer that shot lasers at said insects. I’m very happy to see there is an underwater version that seems to be really effective

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  • [–] 99 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    They exist in trials. The human danger is too great though I think. If the laser thinks your eye is a fly for a split second, game over for vision.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    screw that, we'll just wear sunglasses indoors and look supercool and mosquito free

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Don't mess around with the guy in shades, oh no.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    A laser that can kill a fly in the fraction of a second has to deliver enough energy to fry your retina even though a dozen sunglasses. Also consider that the laser is focused down by the lens in your eye which greatly amplifies its power.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That's not how specific wavelength safety goggles work. You can get both near UV blue light 440nm 5 watt goggles, and infrared depending on the laser.

    Problem is they tend to shift the color of light for everything so much that they aren't pleasant to wear for a long time.

    My worry would be getting hit on the skin, a 5 watt 440nm laser hurts, and it's a deep burning pain that doesn't go away.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Why even pretend my reply was about safety goggles? Obviously a huge difference vs regular sunglasses.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I thought it was obvious I meant laser safety glasses.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    LOL, $600 for something that is unproven and has a high chance of being just a scam?

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    Fish farms are one of the most 'boring dystopia'-moments in existence. They are bad for the environment, breeding disease like it is their main job, they are cruel as fuck (imagine factory farming could layer their animals on top of each other) and most fish end up dead. It is funny how people instantly close their eyes when we are barbaric as fuck towards "food"-animals, like they do have no place on this planet but on our plates. The same disgusting mindset that has let us to another mass extinction.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Now THIS is the cyberpunk reality I want to live in!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's an antiquated reality. It should be a mRNA vaccine or perhaps some kind of nanobot that kills these parasites.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That would be just good old plain sci-fi, no punk in that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I was thinking of Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist universe, with the conflict being between genetic tinkerers and techno-upgraders.

    You could blast the parasites with lasers on drones. Or engineer better fish immune systems.

    Bio punk?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    TIL: There is sea lice.

    New terror unlocked.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Although it’s technically not lice, this is called swimmer’s lice in many languages.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimmer's_itch?wprov=sfti1

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    it seems like a human created problem int eh first place too. when you farm salmon you have to do it in enclosed area, so this unnaturally density of the amount of fish per area is quite high, and parasites, and infections are spread quite easily. Alantic salmon is usually the only ones that can be farmed, other salmon species are much more difficult. wont affect parasites like parasitic cnidarians.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why is it I go straight to “some fascist government is going to set this up on the street and just laser undesirables”

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Except it clears acne and keeps people clean-shaven. Unfortunately ​it doesn't work for some minority subset due to skin, hair color, or some other overlooked bias. Ultimately leading those individuals to fail job interviews and such. Leading them to a life of meager success compared to the majority.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Given that the (Norwegian) Fish Farms on the coast of BC almost annihilated the natural salmon due to the lice and other ecosystem damage, something to destroy the lice might be a little bit helpful. Although it might only be helpful to the penned fish and not the surrounding environment.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    That's pretty clever! Quite the footage

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    TIL fish can get lice

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    We are the Borg, resistance is futile.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    TIL there's lice in the sea...

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    say AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRGGGHHH

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Awesome, but it's hard to imagine what this must seem like from the perspective of the fish.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cool we're finally in the future.

    A little underwhelming.

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  • Something fishy about this Star Wars episode.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Participle... she is dangling.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Nobody ask them about the whales

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This on a small crawler to remove invasive species. Bad idea?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Hopefully it would mitigate the spread into wild populations.

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  • AI? AI?! Stonks go up

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Boston Legal don’t see this coming

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Excessively mild! Thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    MFW people invent laser weapons to shoot parasites off penned animals instead of just not eating fish.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Is the sound not working for anyone else?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
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    kill?

    Oh, sea lice. I read it as sea ice.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    People will do literally anything but stop eating animal products.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Hey man can't just go around and tell people to not kill unnecessarily. Nobody like being called out, even if true. That is like really not nice and stuff.

    Environment will be saved by capitalism, finding new, and good ways to exploit life on earth 👍 (/s)

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ok, you go eat the lice, then.

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    [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    Wir könnten längst in einer Utopie leben, wenn Erfindungsgeist und Wissenschaftsfunding aus der Massenvernichtungsindustrie in sinnvolle Dinge kanalisiert werden würde.

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