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Laser Creates Brightest Light On Earth (Texas)
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 4-8-2008
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 04/08/2008 7:06:29 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
“The stars at night, are big and bright,
(clap, clap, clap),
deep in the heart of Texas!”
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:36:22 PM PDT
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
To: mikrofon
"No Animals Will Be Hurt in the Testing of This Device..."
DANG! I was just gonna ask ya ta hold muh beer.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:38:18 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Satisfaction was my sin)
To: tokenatheist
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:41:03 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: blam
petawatts?? What was I thinking???
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:59:25 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(It's a fine line between Guardian Angel and Stalker.)
To: blam
“The $14m Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt - one thousand million million watts “
“Warning: Avoid staring directly into the beam”
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posted on
04/08/2008 8:03:28 PM PDT
by
EEDUDE
To: SlowBoat407
Can I get those guys to shoot it at my next door neighbor, man he really bothers me.
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posted on
04/08/2008 8:04:08 PM PDT
by
corkoman
To: EEDUDE
Wrong warning.
The correct warning is “No not look into laser with remaining eye”
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posted on
04/08/2008 8:10:14 PM PDT
by
tokenatheist
(Can I play with madness?)
To: blam
A friend of mine that used to work at a high powered laser lab, told me that when lasers get into the very high power range, there is a limit to how long it can fire because even at 99% reflectivity, The materials used as mirrors will melt with the tiny amount absorbed. Spooky but cool.
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posted on
04/08/2008 8:25:46 PM PDT
by
Boiling point
(If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.)
To: blam
Great, let’s mount it in a Boeing and call it good
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posted on
04/08/2008 8:32:02 PM PDT
by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
To: corkoman
Yes, but I have dibs on it tomorrow, to mess wit’ the neighbors cat. Don’t know what it is but he never seems to get tired chasing that dot!
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posted on
04/08/2008 8:55:25 PM PDT
by
isom35
To: EEDUDE
Warning: Avoid staring directly into the beam Ten petawatt-femotoseconds would be ten joules. While that would be powerful enough to blind someone, the hazard level is nowhere near what the "petawatt" number would suggest. For most purposes a laser that output 10,000 watts for a millisecond would have about the same effect.
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posted on
04/08/2008 8:56:10 PM PDT
by
supercat
To: blam
This is the key to the laser's power - it delivers modest energy in a microscopic unit of time.
Shouldn't this read: "This is the key to the laser's power - it delivers an unbelievably huge amount of energy in a microscopic unit of time."
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posted on
04/08/2008 9:16:14 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: tokenatheist; patton
[Have you ever seen a duck explode?]
Yes...I dont like to talk about it.
I don't mean to pry, but it might be good to get this all out. Only suggstin'.
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posted on
04/08/2008 9:24:05 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Sometimes, discussing ones past can be good for the soul. Sort of cathartic.
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posted on
04/08/2008 9:35:53 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: patton
Sometimes, discussing ones past can be good for the soul. Sort of cathartic. In youth, when playing Army, I once claimed that I wasn't "shot" when I really was.
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posted on
04/08/2008 9:52:03 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
As a young soldier, my squad was once a attacked by an officer with a “god gun”- think a laser tag gun, than does rapid fire in all directions.
My 203 gunner, all without orders, dropped a smoke round in his jeep, convincing the officer to go elsewhere.
(It was a darn good shot, actually - a couple of hundred meters uphill, and the 203 round landed right in the passenger side of the jeep.)
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posted on
04/08/2008 10:14:46 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
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posted on
04/08/2008 10:40:09 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: blam
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posted on
04/09/2008 7:46:28 AM PDT
by
Paradox
(Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
To: blam
The laser is brighter than sunlight on the surface of the sun,Another point of light in a dark world.
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posted on
04/09/2008 8:43:58 AM PDT
by
kipita
(“Love” is to humanity as gravitons are to an infinite # of universes.)
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