Very ironic, someone using prefixes for convenient calculation between different types of base units taking about "metric weanies."

The distance a signal travels in a clock cycle only limits you if you insist on having a global clock that is synchronized to less than one cycle. Asynchronous circuits aren't super common in CPUs yet but they do exist, they're reasonably widespread in signal processing chips, and ubiquitous in inter-IC communications.

There are higher multiples but you lose efficiency pretty fast. You can also pump the phosphor with a different frequency, but then you're talking about an active system and it's hard to see why you wouldn't just use electronics.

Yeah, if you're going down that road then you can say it about anything. Your brakes were approved based on some test samples, that might not apply to your specific brakes. Better not drive at all.

A more rational objection is that the eye safety standards were not necessarily formulated for, e.g. someone driving in traffic staring into a bunch of LIDARs for hours.

Those are freedom hating commie units. Even Terawatt hours, which is just a freedom hating commie unit dressed up as a blessed freedom unit.

You know, those containment structures take a long time to build. All that concrete. It's silly. Just look at Walmart, now they know how to build. Some steel girders, bit of sheet metal and a week later there you go! Now that's how you build. Smart!

Automotive LIDAR systems meet eye safety standards. Part of that is that they scan rapidly though, and the one in the video doesn't seem to be doing that.

Capitalism is not at risk here. Publishing and journalism are.

When Chuck Norris slices onions, it's the onions that cry.

Why focus on shootings than total murder rate? It would seem to me that people are just as dead if shot by a gun, stabbed by a knife, run over by a vehicle, struck with a bat, or beaten with bare fists.

Well, you started sensibly.

From data collected on intentional homicide rates the USA is as safe as Greenland: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... [wikipedia.org]

And then took a weird turn. Why not just do what you suggested and compare the US to Europe? US intentional homicide rate: 5.763 / 100k. Europe: 2.10. EU: ~0.32.

I'm not American so I would. It's also one of the less dangerous things your runaway president has done and probably one of the more likely to get him bounced.

Oh, we're getting picky?

Well, here's a litre of hardware store hydrous ammonia then. That's about 25 trillion Watt-hours.

That's how your contrived example works. It's not how medians work.

It's near IR so the bodies have to be a couple thousand degrees to start with. THEN they also have to be quite intense for you to actually see them.

Goggles made this way would still have some significant advantages, namely no power requirements and probably a smaller, lighter package.

Unlikely. CCD's sensitivity is down in the individual photon range. Thermodynamics says you can't upconvert fewer than two photons without a power source and various other physical limits mean any type of medium is going to be way, way worse than that. Passively detecting near IR is kind of useless too, so the only way you're using goggles made this way is if you've got a very much powered searchlight too.