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Re:TV can see through walls by dghughes on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:01AM (#50440521)
1940s? The LASER device was invented in 1960. The Soviet spies used an infrared light beam.
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Re:TV can see through walls by ClikeX on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:15AM (#50441572)
The point was light being used for audio, not specifically laser as a light source.
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Re:TV can see through walls by hansonkd on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:30AM (#50441775)
You seem to keep responding to multiple people defend your point, but he used 1320 MHz in the thing which is not light.

the words you use matter.

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Re:TV can see through walls by itishappy on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:13AM (#50442397)
Speaking of, "light" has no frequency range. Radio waves are not visible light, but they are light!
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Re:TV can see through walls by malfist on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:34PM (#50444289)
They are not light, they are electromagnetic radiation, which light is part of.
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Re:TV can see through walls by itishappy on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:40PM (#50444371)
there's no distinction... electromagnetic radiation is light, and light is electromagnetic radiation
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