Avalon Airshow Takes Raving To The Next level

Nothing got the crowd going more than the Friday night fireworks and laser display put on by the Scandinavian Catwalk. It was one of the most memorable moments of the airshow and hopefully a similar display is around for the next one in 2021.
newtboysays...

It's how they stuck my dad's retinas back on after they both detached. He spent the rest of his life staring hard at things in public and when asked what he was doing he would say "I'm trying to make the lasers come back out."

SFOGuysaid:

I thought lasers ...were bad for retinas...

BSRsays...

Most awesome dad right there!. LOL

newtboysaid:

It's how they stuck my dad's retinas back on after they both detached. He spent the rest of his life staring hard at things in public and when asked what he was doing he would say "I'm trying to make the lasers come back out."

SFOGuysays...

Superb use of a laser---and glad it worked. The mechanism of it working, if I recall correctly, is the burning and scarring of the retinas that have detached "scars" them down onto the the back of the eyeball again...

newtboysaid:

It's how they stuck my dad's retinas back on after they both detached. He spent the rest of his life staring hard at things in public and when asked what he was doing he would say "I'm trying to make the lasers come back out."

newtboysays...

Oh....I didn't say it worked! ;-)
His glasses were 3/4 inch thick afterwards. I went with him to get his new pair shortly after surgery, he drove, and the difference was startling. I realized he couldn't see a thing on the drive there. I thought he had been joking when he asked if the lane was clear when there was a bus beside us....I was wrong.

I guess in the end it did work, as well as expected in the 80's. He still could barely see with bulletproof thickness glasses, but he wasn't completely blind.

SFOGuysaid:

Superb use of a laser---and glad it worked. The mechanism of it working, if I recall correctly, is the burning and scarring of the retinas that have detached "scars" them down onto the the back of the eyeball again...

SFOGuysays...

Ah--not tears then--detachments.
Sad to hear---

But--lasers and retina scarring---it's a real thing.

newtboysaid:

Oh....I didn't say it worked! ;-)
His glasses were 3/4 inch thick afterwards. I went with him to get his new pair shortly after surgery, he drove, and the difference was startling. I realized he couldn't see a thing on the drive there. I thought he had been joking when he asked if the lane was clear when there was a bus beside us....I was wrong.

I guess in the end it did work, as well as expected in the 80's. He still could barely see with bulletproof thickness glasses, but he wasn't completely blind.

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