Ever wondered why people say laser pointers are bad if you point them at the eye? You’ve probably ignored this warning and maliciously pointed a laser at a friend or someone in the eye to try and piss them off. I did it.
Well, let’s just say that a while ago, I was sitting, quite bored, with a laser in my hand. A fly decided to buzz into my room, and, considering I hate flies, I decided to wait until the fly landed somewhere so that I could point the laser at it and piss it off. The fly, surely, landed, and I blasted it with my laser. That’s when I noticed the fly kinda dumbed down with the laser. Delighted (It was a fat and noisy fly, the kind that’s hatable to anyone), I decided to continue pestering it, until I noticed that the fly stopped responding to the laser. Intrigued, I grabbed a pen, and noticed that the fly had gone completely blind. I am not sure if this would have lasted, as I used the opportunity to get the fly out of my house, but the fly was blind. It couldn’t see at all. I could poke it, and only until the pen actually touched it did it react in some way. It refused to fly, preferring instead walking. It didn’t react at all when I did a slapping movement intended to make it react in some sort of way. It was blind. And this fly-blinding process took less than a minute.
Now, the human eye is larger, and, according to chemestry, there’s a Lethal Dose per gram, so let’s say that a human that weighs 50 kilos and a clone of that human that weighs only 40 kilos, the heavier human would take longer to poison. So it is kinda the same for the fly eye vs the human eye. But then let’s add that this laser is killing your eye off, unlike other substances, which become lethal only after a certain amount.
I recommend that you try this experiment at home. Maybe the particular fly I blinded was really unlucky, or maybe it was a huge coincidence (I haven’t repeated this experiment, although I’m planning to), but, please, don’t play with laser pointers.
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