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ZEUS: US facility fires world’s most powerful laser at 2 petawatts
Interesting Engineering ^
| May 20, 2025
| Mrigakshi Dixit
Posted on 05/21/2025 6:33:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata
JUST ADD A SHARK!......................
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:34:01 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:36:28 AM PDT
by
pburiak
(You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
I just saw that. Well, I blinked so I didn’t “see it” “see it”.
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:40:14 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:43:29 AM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: Red Badger
Might be useful for tattoo removal.
To: Red Badger
“including better imaging methods for soft tissues and advancing the technology used to treat cancer and other diseases”
Oh, stop. Just like Larry Ellison and Sam Altman are curing cancer.
To: Red Badger
IF only we had spent all the global warming/dei etc on REAL RESEARCH.
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:46:14 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: Red Badger
Something that “generates a brief pulse of light with a power output exceeding the entire world’s electricity consumption by a factor of one hundred” doesn’t sound like a good thing for the world...sounds kind of like what some scientists thought might happen prior to the detonation of the first nuclear weapon test.
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:47:13 AM PDT
by
ripnbang
("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
To: Red Badger
Unfortunately it cut the world in half. Anybody have some Gorilla Glue?
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:47:30 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Red Badger
So 2,000,000,000,000,000 watts in 0.000.000.000.000.000.025 seconds
OR 2 * 10 ^15 / 25 * 10^-18 watts/second
To: rktman
” 25 quintillionths of a second”
I’m an old Calibration Tech, I wanna know how they measured that!.....................
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:48:13 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Don’t stare directly at it.
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:49:12 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
To: Red Badger
What is the electric bill for firing up that laser?
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:49:52 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Red Badger
Imagine harnessing power on a scale almost unimaginable.One of the dumbest opening lines ever... and probably thought it was profound.
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05/21/2025 6:50:02 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: Red Badger
Let’s see now ... 2 petawatts, 25 quintillionths of a second, works out to the same energy as 50 kw for one second.
Anyone have a contrary opinion on my math?
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:50:33 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: ripnbang
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:50:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: DuncanWaring
I’ll take your word for it.....................🙄
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:51:12 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
05/21/2025 6:52:47 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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