U.S labaratory creates LASER.

[Altorin]

is it red or green, are we the good guys or the bad?

It's green. Can't answer the second one though.

if its green then were the bad guys

between red and green, green is the good guys.

 

[E.X.D.]

Anything made that can be used for the military will be regardless of its original purpose.

 

[Leorex]

is it red or green, are we the good guys or the bad?

It's green. Can't answer the second one though.

if its green then were the bad guys

between red and green, green is the good guys.

no, in starwars red is the good guys, and green is the bad guys.

 

[Christemo]

it would be awesome... if the US didnt control it.

 

[Christemo]

Anything made that can be used for the military will be regardless of its original purpose.

exactly why the microwave exists.

 

[a stranger]

soon it will turn into a wmd

 

[MasterSqueak]

Did anyone even read the article?

America's new "Super Laser", designed to counter nuclear missiles

The National Ignition Facility's main purpose is to serve as a tool for gauging the reliability and safety of the US nuclear weapons arsenal but scientists say it could deliver breakthroughs in safe fusion power.

What this has to do with countering nuclear missiles I do not know. You use it to test nuclear armaments to see if they will still perform as designed decades after their production.

And the fusion thing is a brilliant plan where a bunch of physists got drunk and said "hey, what if we focused the output of several lasers at a single point?"

"Several? MORE LIKE 192!!!! THOUSAND!!!!"

we will see if this works, but this laser is not designed to shoot down nuclear weapons.

Whos paying the electricity bill ?

you are. taxes are fun.

I know little when it comes to nukes or lasers, so please dont yell at me. :|

 

[thiosk]

it would be awesome... if the US didnt control it.

don't you have some butter cookies you could be eating instead?

anyway,

Its not a weapon, perfectly functional laser weapons are already due to be installed on various us navy ships, this is nothing more than a cool physics tool. You can obsolete most forms of laser weaponry by just using reflective or ablative paint on whatever you want to protect, anyway.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Now to mount one on the head of a shark.

Or Ill- Tempered Sea Bass

 

[A random person]

This. Is. Awesome.
This stuff is why I want to be an engineer or physicist.

 

[SnowCold]

is it red or green, are we the good guys or the bad?

Yellow =O

 

[deletemeplease107]

sorrryyyy but this has to be said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdJRDpLHbw

 

[eelel]

*face palms* wow

 

[neoman10]

lasers are old, now its all about nuclear lasers(Gamma of course, none of that pussy alpha or beta)!

 

[MortisLegio]

I've had a Laser for years and... OH Crap
(erases your memories)
oh um thats a nice laser they got there
(whistles to self then leaves)

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

Didn't we already have lasers for a very long time?

 

[AceDiamond]

So? this has been in development by Boeing for an age, they making a laser mounted on a plane than can cut a swathe through armoured columns,In quick rapid order and the thing is fucking invisible.

i dont see how good it is ethier if its an anti-nuclear missle shield if an enemy ship can just attack the coast with fucking railguns with slug ammunition going at speeds of mach 7, god were fucking ourselves arnt we?

Yeah if not for the fact that the US is the one leading the "Railguns as a weapon" concept, although it's ridiculously expensive and thus not happening any time soon.

Yes but i wasn't being dead serious in my statement, rather if such a thing can be created it can throw the whole "MAD" concept out the window, also just because America is developing the concept does not mean others are not.

Prototypes have been tried and tested, they plan to have them on battleships.. i think about 2012 or 11.

I think they've been pushed back due to expenses and impracticality. Much like the Boeing airplane-mounted laser

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

A link would be cool, if I leave the escapist website too long (more than 2 seconds) I start detoxing.

EDIT: Oh wow I'm so glad money is going towards this rather useless technology instead of my education...

Useless? Did you not read the line that says it has energy gain? This is a step towards fusion.

"Free" energy? Sign me up! Let's kerplode those hydrogen atoms already, science people.

 

[Sewblon]

Hopefully now we can finally get SDI done, if we can make this we should be able to point it at ICBMs while they are still over the ocean.