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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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posted on
04/08/2008 7:06:30 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Bet that will add to global warming.
2
posted on
04/08/2008 7:10:01 PM PDT
by
CONSERVE
To: blam
Plus it removes tattoos. Completely.
3
posted on
04/08/2008 7:10:24 PM PDT
by
Sender
(Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom.)
To: blam
Great. The price of oil is at record highs and now this.
To: blam
Witchcraft! Stop this now!(/panicked liberal screams off)
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:11:12 PM PDT
by
Mark
(Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
To: Arkansas Toothpick
Oh, another important question: is it a compact fluorescent bulb?
Pheh! Call me when they have a functional lightsabre.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:12:34 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Satisfaction was my sin)
To: blam
I hope they realize that accidentally creating a microscopic black hole in the laboratory can ruin their whole day.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:16:53 PM PDT
by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: blam
Can it be used for duck hunting? Just curious.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:17:39 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: Arkansas Toothpick
It does not use much energy.
Power is energy divided by time, so a pulse of one Watt that lasts a second has one Joule of energy. Take that same Joule and pulse it not in a second, but a nanosecond (one billionth) and the power in Watts is 1,000,000,000.
This laser is “a tenth of a trillionth of a second” which sounds like 10 femtoseconds, .00000000000001 second, so the total energy does not need to be a lot of Joules to be “the most powerful (in Watts) in the world”.
The whole setup probably runs on less than a kilowatt or two, and a lot of that will be cooling fans and water pumps.
10
posted on
04/08/2008 7:17:54 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: blam
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:19:51 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: blam
I guess It’s my turn.....
EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS :)
12
posted on
04/08/2008 7:20:09 PM PDT
by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: blam
We have a "laser" capable of generating one petawatt of power and we will use it to create rivers of red hot magma and destroy the earth unless you give us ... one million ... uh one billion ... uh ... one hundred billion dollars.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:22:32 PM PDT
by
LiberConservative
(Part of the "Vast Typical White Guy Conspiracy")
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Have you ever seen a duck explode?
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:22:46 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: blam
And I thought that I was the brightest light on earth. The women will be disappointed..............again.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:25:50 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: 1FASTGLOCK45
"EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS :)" It's true.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:28:20 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: patton
Yes.
I don’t like to talk about it.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:29:01 PM PDT
by
tokenatheist
(Can I play with madness?)
To: blam
It's big and it's in Texas, imagine that.
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:29:19 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Obama's wife trained him to fight Hillary)
To: blam
Is this going to unravel time and destroy the universe. Or can I sleep peacefully to night?
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:32:13 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(<marquee>TEXT HERE</marquee>)
To: blam
The $14m Texas Petawatt laser "No Animals Will Be Hurt in the Testing of This Device..."
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posted on
04/08/2008 7:34:18 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Petawatting Zoo)
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