• Question: Are the lazers the same as the ones in lazer tag? and how are the ones in lazer tag not harmful?

    Asked by glencoco to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 2 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      The lasers that I use (and I think the others too) are not the same as in laser tag.
      I don’t know if laser tag actually uses lasers. The last time I went, it looked like flashes of well-focussed white light (like you’d get from a camera flashgun) rather than a laser. If it does use lasers, then there are lots of different powers of lasers, and the ones that they use would be very weak and not able to burn you.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I still always get a little nervous in laser tag, even though I know they can’t really hurt me!

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      They are just less powerful.

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