Wait, what?

People like you are the reason we haven't been to the moon in over 40 years.

Iran is not developing nuclear weapons.

Correct, Iran is a first world country.

Isn't the whole "getting pretty" thing reinforcing gender constructs?

Electricity, genius.

Eye safety, if something enters the beam, it could reflect and blind someone.

you could split the beam up, and make it super wide.

People are people, regardless of gender. The world would likely be very similar if it was controlled by women. Stop perpetuating negative stereotypes.

There are ways to get 10.8 on older hardware, you just have to do some googling.

Oh, yes. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Probably none. Read up on THz radiation.

Longwave IR, it's what commercial laser cutters use. (10.6 um)

No, no , no. Stop spreading lies. Backscatter machines use X-rays, which are dangerous. This uses longwave infrared, not dangerous at all.

No, it's IR, so not dangerous at all. Plus it's mode-locked, so it has extremely short pulse durations.

Or fundamentalist, cannibalistic Mormons. About an equal chance.

Statistically speaking, rich people have less children than poor people. Stop trying to coerce people into political arguments.

Advancing humanity's understanding of the natural world takes priority over the shitstorm in Africa

Who cares about babies? Seriously...