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WCDT: 2470-2474 (17-21 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
cesium133:
--- Quote from: LordVaughn on 21 Jun 2013, 03:56 ---As for the poll, wouldn't Hanners be more likely to use her parents' influence to get a laser for the cake, as cutting it would be a lot less messy that way, provided she doesn't have a cake laser already?
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Depending on what type of laser it is, it might be a lot messier than cutting the cake with a knife. To cut the cake effectively you would need a high-power laser with a very narrow collimated beam (or a beam with a very broad* focus), because you're cutting a cake that is at least (random guess) ~6 inches thick, versus the <1 inch-thick steel a cutting laser would normally be used for. You'd probably want something like a pulsed Nd:YAG laser rather than a more typical CO2 laser, because who wants a burned piece of cake? Then there's the issue of what's behind the cake. You'd probably want something very sturdy behind the cake that can take a very intense laser pulse without getting a hole shot through it.
Of course I'm not particularly familiar with the type of industrial cutting lasers that are available. Perhaps Million Dollar Belt Sander will have some more insight.
*edit - "broad" probably isn't the right word here. I mean a focus with a long Rayleigh range (i.e. a narrow beam waist but one that is narrow for a long distance along the beam propagation axis).
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 21 Jun 2013, 10:06 ---Cutting a cake with a laser might produce carbon dioxide and contribute to global warming! A waterjet cutter might be better.
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I'm having difficulty imagining a waterjet cutter that won't turn a typical cake into cake chunks, spread all over the guests, the walls, the floor etc. Hanners would NOT enjoy the mess. The guests probably wouldn't either.
Kugai:
Just so long as she doesn't do a Safety Dance :D
Method of Madness:
Hey! She can dance if she wants to!
Zebediah:
She can leave her friends behind.
'Cause her friends don't dance...
Weird fact: The lead singer for Men Without Hats bore an astonishing resemblence to an old friend of mine. Right down to the Robin Hood garb.
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