{"id":4639,"date":"2010-04-26T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/26\/reminder-vote-for-the-most-ama\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:52:56","slug":"reminder-vote-for-the-most-ama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/26\/reminder-vote-for-the-most-ama\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Vote for the Most Amazing Laser Application of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 1:45 Monday, 217 people have cast votes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/laser_smackdown_vote_for_the_m.php\">Laser Smackdown poll<\/a>. That&#8217;s not bad, but it&#8217;s currently being handily beaten by the 271 people who have voted for <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/dorky_poll_would_you_like_cons.php\">a favorite system of units<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about using actual poll services for this sort of thing, though, is that I can re-post the poll to boost signal a little. So, here it is again, a list of the twelve most amazing laser applications suggested by my wise and worldly readers, with links to short explanations of the pros and cons of each:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3098217.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/3098217\/\">Which of the following is the most amazing application of a laser?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">Market Research<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Voting will remain open until next Sunday, May 2, with the ultimate winner announced on Monday, May 3rd. Whereupon everybody will have to acknowledge the winning application as <em>the Most Amazing Laser Application of All  Time<\/em>. Because, you know, that&#8217;s how these things work.<\/p>\n<p>So get reading, and get voting. One vote per computer per user, please&#8211; this is Serious Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 1:45 Monday, 217 people have cast votes in the Laser Smackdown poll. That&#8217;s not bad, but it&#8217;s currently being handily beaten by the 271 people who have voted for a favorite system of units. The nice thing about using actual poll services for this sort of thing, though, is that I can re-post&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/26\/reminder-vote-for-the-most-ama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reminder: Vote for the Most Amazing Laser Application of All Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,146,135,13,19,33,188,169,72,238,7,137,23,11,71],"tags":[258,114,259,195,257,260,247,204,115,92,261,88,186,262],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-atoms_and_molecules","category-condensed_matter","category-education","category-experiment","category-in_the_news","category-laser_smackdown","category-lasers","category-life_science","category-optics","category-physics","category-polls","category-quantum_optics","category-science","category-space","tag-alser-spectroscopy","tag-laser","tag-laser-communitcations","tag-laser-cooling","tag-laser-guide-star","tag-laser-light-show","tag-laser-surgery","tag-laser-trapping","tag-optics-2","tag-physics-2","tag-polls-2","tag-science-2","tag-technology-2","tag-telecommunications","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}