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Send Morse Code Over Stockholm By Laser

Posted by timothy on from the di-di-da-di-da-di-da-di-da-da-di dept.

bigmac writes "KTH, Royal Institute of technology is celebrating 175 year anniv by making a very spectacular laser show. A green laser sent from the bottom of an old reactor building 30 meters below ground. The beam is then reflected over the city from the schools clock tower. And yes, you can send your own laser-morse messages through their homepage!" Here's an image to chew on.

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  1. hmm by hatchet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I don't understand swedish, I won't understand swedish morse code. Does any translator know swedish?

  2. Reminds me of "blinkenlights"... by evbergen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... that was up on slashdot a while ago. It allowed you to send messages that scrolled by on a 18x8 screen made of lamps in office rooms and play Pong on your GSM (see http://www.blinkenlights.de/).

    It's not even that original, considering the fact that (at least here in NL) a lot of clip stations are continuously scrolling by SMS messages from random people. Everyone his 5 seconds of fame. Hmm.

    The laser would be a fun way to ask a geeky other half to marry though.

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  3. ehm... something else on the site by hummer357 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone notice on the site that the university is giving a doctorat (honoris causa) to Bill Gates?

    Nice one, Stockholm!

  4. Re:Oh, right by djonsson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I attend this school; why do I have to read this on slashdot? Noone here knew. But then again, students don't seem to be invited to the 175 year anniversary.

  5. My message would be ... by Skapare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My message would be the source code to DeCSS, compressed, and alpha-encoded.

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  6. Re:Yes, it does by Max+von+H. · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to spend my summers nearby an observatory in the South of France, and they were using a pretty damn visible laser to measure Earth-Moon distance (I think). At night, a similar beam than in the article photo could be visible (can't remember the colour of it though), and that was 20 years ago.

    Pretty impressive thing to see when you're a kid in the middle of nowhere in the early 1980's.

    Cheers,
    max

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