Random Thought Thread

bluemax_1 said:
Saw/discussed that on another forum.

Common consensus is that it’s a BS vaporware scam (indiegogo. Similar to kickstarter. People crowdsource funds to develop/manufacture something).

2 major issues:

1) IIRC, the preorder price is something like $446. Sorry, you’re not getting LIDAR that can detect and accurately target flying bugs for that price.

2) a laser that’s powerful enough to harm a mosquito, is absolutely not eye safe. Even reflected light at the intensities required, can potentially cause eye damage.

Estimates are that they’re going to take suckers money, and it’s not the mosquitoes, but the developers who will suddenly go ***poof***
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The first red flag for me was that the voice over didn’t match the lips moving. Nah, this is a scam.
 
SharpBits said:
It’s my understanding* that it only will point to the mosquito, but not harm it. That’s up to the human to smash the bug. It’s a waste of money, of course.

*Unless this an another one and not the one I read about.
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This one claims to burn the wings off the mosquitoes, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if there are multiple scams over similar BS.

One thing I can always rely on, is the scammers are some lazy P’s OS (well, obviously. They’d rather scam a sucker out of money, than work to earn it).

Whenever someone comes up with a scam, a whole BUNCH of scumbags go, “Oh… hey… that’s a great idea!!! Imma do that, too!”

Like all the sextortion emails that resulted from the NPD hack/breach last year. I kept getting those stupid things for months. They were really easy to spot, because those lazyasses used the same stupid template, and for whatever reason, picked the stupidest sounding names possible. I’d see an email with an attachment and a stupid name, and just block it and send it straight to trash.

***The Photon Matrix BS is an Indiegogo from Changzhou China. They’ve raised USD$173,XXX so far, and the cheapest option was $446, going all the way up to ~$700. Developer was looking to raise $19,873. 🤣🤣🤣

Suuuuuuure… you only need ~$20k to develop and start manufacturing a LIDAR based mosquito shooting laser 😂😂😂
Sucker born every minute.
 
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Cap’n Smudge said:
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It's a scam, but that would be awesome if it were real. I'd set it up in my backyard and pull up a chair to watch.
Nathan the Machinist said:
That seems like a pretty cool way to go blind.
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Wait a minute! Wait wait wait.....Weren't you the guy that put a ladder, on top of a ladder, on top of a make shift platform, on top of a fork lift to trim a tree over 30 feet up in the air? Now all of a sudden you're "low-t mcgee"?

I don't buy it. Not fooling anyone. Nathan's account has been hacked! Someone call Blues!
 
Sounds like a surefire way to add two things to your traumatic food memory bank.

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carnifex knifeworks said:
Wait a minute! Wait wait wait.....Weren't you the guy that put a ladder, on top of a ladder, on top of a make shift platform, on top of a fork lift to trim a tree over 30 feet up in the air? Now all of a sudden you're "low-t mcgee"?
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What? I'm just saying it sounded pretty cool.

Would you rather say you went blind because somebody stuck you in the eye with a pencil, or because of freaking laser beams man!
 
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