7? Psh.

Try 40.

No but seriously, it’s addictive. One moment you’re like “I just need a good flashlight” and the next you’re telling somebody how the flashlight they got from Lowes has terrible tint and CRI compared to your hand-assembled copper and titanium pixel camo Emisar D4v2 with dedomed Nichia 519As you got for like $120 from a Chinese guy named Hank.

This is the comic Salvatore based his skit on.

Speak for yourself.

Wait, there’s a 3000k SFT-40?

I mean, we’ve already surpassed The Expanse in some ways (at least the first couple books).

Something that struck me was in Caliban’s War they were relying heavily on mirrors to focus sunlight for growing crops out at Jupiter. I guess the authors just didn’t foresee LED technology advancing as rapidly as it did.

Leviathan Wakes was published in June 2011. Caliban’s War was published in June 2012.

The L-prize “60W” category winner was announced in August 2011 (it was Philips). It didn’t become commercially-available until April 2012, but even then, it was like $50 – far from affordable for most people. Now you can get equivalent or better bulbs for less than 1/10th of that.

Yes.

Memes, uh, find a way.

Soft feathers

Talks about Perseverance.

Image is of Spirit or Opportunity.

It’s definitely unique in my collection, that’s for sure.

You’ve taken your first steps into a larger brighter world.

Out of curiosity, what’s the current hardware?

Primarily fun, though I could see a lot of use cases in areas like construction and general outdoorsy stuff. Had a friend drooling over my Sofirn SP70, saying it would be perfect for checking on his livestock in the early morning.

Things like that.

Unsuccessfully ignoring the implications.

I’ve been thinking about going 26800 in my D4SV2s but haven’t pulled the trigger. Which supplier did you get these from?