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pcernie
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I like your thinking  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Amnesia10
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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What about those laser pointers? They are bright enough to bring down jet planes apparently.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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Pretty much any laser would do if you could paint the fly for long enough with it. It just has to be powerful enough to dump more heat energy into the fly than the fly can dissipate by radiation. Eventually your fly will reach ignition point. There's a certain amount of 'wet finger in the air' about some of the numbers but my estimates suggest a 500mW laser (which you can actually buy, it's not like death ray category) would set a fly on fire in about a second. Fit that on a mount with some sort of tracking mechanism, that'd do the job. Course, a tracking system able to track a fly and stick something on it with sufficient accuracy will cost you many, many times the cost of the laser. And you'll probably have to buy it from DARPA. Course you also wouldn't want to be in the room at the time, just in case the fly decided to land on your face. Unless you were wearing really thick sunglasses.
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Amnesia10
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Or just use a light sabre?
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pcernie
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How much I love The Guardian's website content - I have to send everything to my Kindle otherwise I'd be reading off a laptop screen for days on end  Sadly, I suspect it's all not very sustainable long-term  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am
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Lunch!
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
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It's flipping cold in my new office and no one asked me for lunch
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
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Extra jumpers tomorrow then _________________Still the official cheeky one
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
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Yeah. And leather jacket is staying on today. Lunch was prosciutto and Parmesan whole grain baguette. Nom
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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Capita. Hooray - they’ve been trying to contact me about my Civil Service pension. The letter I got says that they tried writing to me at my old address, but letters were being returned.
Unlikely as my old address is still where my parents live, so they would have forwarded stuff to me. Anyway, now I have a form to fill in and somewhere in the unipile is my NI number.
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oceanicitl
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I hate our PO / finance system
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Amnesia10
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Why does one machine only want to load iTunes 11.0.5 and the other downloads 11.1? I will now have to transfer the files to get the other machine to see the iPhone! _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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pcernie
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That I got more squeamish as I got older - currently trying to watch the latest Horizon show and they've just taken a razor to a rat's brain...
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Lol, was that the sex one with Prof. Alice? _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
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Oil burn on my hand looks like some weird skin disease.
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