[blam]

Ten trillion seems like an awful lot until you read the article posted below:

Quasar Found 420 Trillion Times Brighter Than Our Sun

[bobby.223]

“No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”

[Red Badger]

[Jeff Chandler]

Which they intend to use for engraving on grains of rice.

[alancarp]

"To put that number in context, that’s 10,000 times the power of all the world’s electrical grids combined.

*raises hand*

"So you're telling me that this thing can produce 10,000X more power than you can possibly put into it?"

(math and physics are hard, I guess)

[Zeppo]

China’s Building A laser That Could ‘Tear Space Apart’

"You break it, you own it."

[JudgemAll]

You cannot focus all that power unless you use super small wavelength laser. Meaning you either have to have a small nuke explosion generating gama ray laser or you criss cross beams resulting in phase changes into small wave length

[bgill]

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

[Delta 21]

I think these scientists need to review a few definitions. They cant even get their orders of magnitude straight. SOunds like a 3rd grade science project.

[logi_cal869]

Ping

[\/\/ayne]

Confirmed by computer analysis.

[SunkenCiv]

“Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. I like how that rolls out...”

Scientists building world’s most-powerful ‘SUPER LASERS’ that can RIP holes in space
Daily Star | 24 January 2018 | Anthony Blair
Posted on 01/24/2018 8:44:59 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3625796/posts

[WayneS]

Well then I guess the universe is doomed...

[sasportas]

I rather doubt the Chicoms are doing this just for science sake, a weapon that can knock out any incoming ICBM? They can do what they want militarily in Taiwan and southeast Asia, without fear of reprisal from the US?

[VietVet876]

I’ll take the one that can clear the sidewalk of ferals at 100 yards.

[bunkerhill7]

The Chinese are building a laser that is 10 trillion times more intense than the sun and could rip apart space and cook a 1000 year old egg in 2 seconds.

[nitzy]

Ten trillion seems like an awful lot until you read the article posted below

But what your excerpt actually said was...

"This means the researchers could achieve a laser intensity 10 trillion trillion times greater than the sunlight striking earth."

Or from the original article...

"If a 100-PW pulse can be focused to a spot measuring just 3 micrometers across, as Li is planning for the SEL, the intensity in that tiny area will be an astonishing 1024 watts per square centimeter (W/cm2)—some 25 orders of magnitude, or 10 trillion trillion times, more intense than the sunlight striking Earth."

I think the difference between 10 trillion and 10 trillion trillion is quite large.