re: old radar attitudes from what i can tell 

@heatherhorns look if it's a laser you can shoot
- that's called a maser, lasers weren't invented yet and didn't have a name
- radar is specifically the use of radio waves for detecting things and sensing the distance to them. use of radio waves for anything else is not radar

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re: old radar attitudes from what i can tell 

@heatherhorns masers were invented long before lasers, and the first lasers were actually called "optical masers", as they were the same principle but operated on visible light insteead of microwaves/radio waves
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