Scientists building world's most-powerful 'SUPER LASERS' that can RIP holes in space

Daily Star ^ | 24 January 2018 | Anthony Blair

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They sure did, Buckaroo!

[Irishguy]

hahahhaha...priceless...post of the day....LOL LOL

i shall chuckle all day to this...thanks...

[rightwingcrazy]

Here’s a somewhat less sensational article:

http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2017/09/ultraintense-100-petawatt-laser-aims-to-uncover-the-secret-of-vacuum.html

As the article suggests, there seems to be a race for the “world’s most powerful laser”, with several countries participating. This reminds me of the race for the “world’s most powerful particle accelerator”, but perhaps not yet as expensive. The scientists see opportunities for discovery, but I suspect the people with the checkbooks see opportunities for national power and prestige.

[himno hero]

naaaa,
being advanced enough to get here, they’ld likely re-educate the dumb dems

[al_c]

[GingisK]

That dang old inverse square law, I suppose.

[wally_bert]

Dr. Alan Parsons already built a super powerful “laser”.

[wally_bert]

I have to agree.

[wally_bert]

When will the knockoffs be at Harbor Freight?

[tm61]

you mway fwiah wheen redee

[Moltke]

We are not even remotely close to getting that kind of power out of a laser.

Yes, I noticed that as well. The probably mean PWh or PWs - where a femtosecond burst has a few Watts of power... this type of articles always get that wrong, because they're written by idiots.

[Crucial]

I really don’t want to have to worry about illegal space aliens voting too.

[HeadOn]

Yeah, and you thought capsizing GUAM was bad...

[Moltke]

Slight correction: PW/h or PW/s... A 1 femtosecond burst at 100 PW/s would equal 100 W. That sounds reasonable enough.