Laser pointer light show in Hong Kong for celebrating Chinese Valentine's Day
Taken by Anthony on August 7, 2019 @
Hong Kong
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7th August 2019 is the Chinese Valentine's Day that celebrating the annual meeting of the cowherd (Altair) and weaver girl (Vega), which they were banished to opposite sides of the Silver River (Milky Way) in mythology.
Keith Fong, the Student Union head of Hong Kong Baptist University, was arrested on 6th August night, after he purchasing ten laser pointers to use for 7th August Chinese Valentine's Day star gazing event.
Police claim the laser pointers were ‘laser guns’ and charged the student with possession of ‘offensive weapons’, and demonstrated the newspaper catch fire after pointing directly for 10 seconds and 15 cm away.
Thousand of Hongkongers gathered outside the Hong Kong Space Museum on 7th August evening to create their own “laser show” to coincide with the nightly light show organised with by the Tourism Board.
Someone hold up a newspaper, hundreds of laser pointer pointing to it, to let people know laser pointers cannot catch fire unless in laboratory environmental conditions.
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