"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in Japanese."
Posted on 07/29/2015 5:26:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
OK, so the have really, really great eyesight also. :)
I once saw a UFO shoot a laser beam into Elvis’ grave.
W.W.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in Japanese."
“The team were able to produce such a high output from low energy by only firing the laser beam for 1 pico-second, or a trillionth of a second.”
I wonder if that would kill a mosquito? Possibly, since the total energy input is less than what it would take to power a microwave oven for two seconds, and so the output energy would be some percent less than that. The question is how dispersed was that energy during that trillionth of a second, that is, how wide was the beam diameter?
Yottawatt?
My guess is that they have a large bank of ultra-capacitors which you can now get at 300 farads each, about the size of a soda can. So lots of stored charge. When ready to use it, ZAP! But it probably takes a while to build up the charge so the duty cycle of this laser would be very poor.
Hah! Don’t know if that was me or spellcheck.
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