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/s... 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/innova... [Fact Off] Laser cooking of printed chicken    • Robots that Cook: precision cooking with m...   https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... Laser lightning rod for deflection/protection https://www.unige.ch/communication/co... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156... https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/s... http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/cam/exhibit... [Ask the Science Couch] Long-distance lasers and masers https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives... https://spie.org/news/12-09-laser-ran... 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/arti... https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health... http://www.utahorthopediccenters.com/...