No. The US kicked NATO member Türkiye out of the F-35 program and denied them F-16 upgrades for a long time[1]. And the EU has denied Türkiye membership supposedly because they're not fully part of Europe (among other issues) while courting Georgia which is farther east. Türkiye is treated as a frenemy by the west. Good on them for making their own way.
Those words are doing some heavy lifting. The EU cares more about their commitment to democracy, and their dubious economic policies. The last thing the EU needs is another Hungary.
My instinct is that there are a lot of a potentially good reasons not to let them into the EU, and maybe even ones for kicking them out of NATO, but "they want to sell their minerals to other countries" doesn't strike me as a reasonable gripe in terms of NATO at least.
Is there an effective anti-IR coating for eyeglasses like there is for UV? Seems like a good thing to have but a web search doesn't turn up much. It might interfere with facial recognition, but maybe that's a feature.
Any laser light strong enough to damage your vision, might also pass through a optical coating. Distance can attenuate the strength, but really the only defense is proper rated glasses for the spectrum.
Thin films of gold are reflective in the infrared and transparent in blue/green optical wavelengths. Gold can be applied to most surfaces by various physical vapor deposition processes in a vacuum.
For anyone else who's wondering what PSP is, from the Google spec[1]:
The PSP Security Protocol (PSP) is a security protocol created by Google for encryption in
transit. PSP uses several of the concepts from IPsec ESP to provide an encryption
encapsulation layer on-top of IP that is streamlined and custom-built to address the
requirements of large-scale data centers.
So "PSP" really is a recursive acronym for "PSP Security Protocol". eyeroll
Not only that but since they chose a super original and totally not cringeworthy recursive acronym the first letter could have been literally anything.
Ok in fairness it was probably originally something like Paul's Security Protocol and they felt that that wasn't professional enough or something.
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