Posted on 05/15/2010 9:21:57 AM PDT by SmartInsight
The first laser light was produced on May 16, 1960 at the Hughes Research Lab in Malibu, California when Theodore Maimen switched on his fist-sized device that flashed a bright red spot onto a photo-detector. Since then, lasers have become smaller, more powerful, and ubiquitous in modern technology.
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the invention of the first working laser. Today, lasers can be found almost everywhere, from telephone lines to cutting edge scientific research, supermarket scanners, and even cat toys.
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Interesting that the article does not even mention laser weapons.
I first read about LASERs in 62 or 63. I remember my first thought was, “Death Ray!”
.......................still waitin’.
“.......................still waitin’.”
Getting close though. 300mw lasers available on the web can start fires and run on a couple of penlight batteries. They will permanently blind you in an instant...
BTW, more effective than a firearm for self defense.
The ALTB program places battle management equipment, a beam control/fire control system, and a high-energy Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) on a modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft to support the potential application of directed energy for missile defense. On Feb. 11, 2010, Boeing, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully demonstrated the speed, precision and breakthrough potential of directed-energy weapons when the Airborne Laser Test Bed engaged and destroyed a boosting ballistic missile. For more information, read the Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB) (PDF) overview, the Missile Defense Agency Airborne Laser Test Bed Fact Sheet.
After they proved it worked in a test, obozo and gates canceled funding for it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453867/posts
After the developers proved it worked in a test, obozo and gates canceled funding for it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453867/posts
It’ll be back when the clown is gone...
In 1985, I visited a display of holograms of artifacts from the Soviet Union in a London museum. A sign at the entrance noted that the laser was invented by Soviet scientists in 1958.
The Soviets always claimed they invented everything — seriously. That doesn’t mean it was true.
It's more interesting that the author keeps misspelling Ted Maiman's name.
If you read the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, you’ll learn that the incandescent light bulb was invented by Lodinov in 1870 and that the airplane was invented by Mozhaiskii in 1877.
"Revising History to Control the Masses."
Oh_Bummer learned his lessons well from that Great American TERRORIST Souless llinky!
Talk about a sucker play. Don’t turn and look, you’ll be blinded.
Lasers. I thought the thread was about losers. I was going to suggest Michael Dukakis.
No excitement though. What’s the fun of self defense if you don’t scatter some perp’s guts out on the sidewalk?
BTW, who can forget the trip to the Seattle planetarium for the Laser Floyd: The Wall show?
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