Boeing Successfully Tested Laser Cannon

[fwupow]

and since your Cell-Phone provides GPS position feedback, you need only say a couple of wrong words like "terror" & "bomb" to be reduced to a smoking pair of boots by the curbside.

 

[djcoolmasterx]

[citation][nom]zipz0p[/nom]Please, follow your own suggestion - try General Relativity this time, though. Gravity bends spacetime, and as such, can warp the trajectory of photons. As a simple example, look up gravitational lensing.Of course, gravity is not the only way to augment light - it is also wavelike, and other optics works pretty well - just not on such high-powered lasers... the energy density tends to melt common optics. (Put your magnifying lenses away.)On a related note, lasers are awesome. Pew pew.[/citation]


But you can hardly guide light with the absolutly minute effect of relativity... for that you need something with the mass of the sun to deflect light a fraction of a degree. LRN2PHYSICS

 

[wild9]

Remember this, from 2003..

Anti-rocket laser cannon gets funding

Thursday 30 October 2003

http/www.tomshardware.co.uk/anti,news-9498.html

"Israel and the U.S. are to spend at least $57 million for development of a laser cannon that can shoot down short-range missiles, an Israeli legislator and security officials said Tuesday. "A recent Israeli delegation successfully lobbied Congress to approve the new funding package for the joint U.S.-Israeli Nautilus laser weapon project, said Israeli lawmaker Yuval Steinitz, who was part of the delegation."

 

[LLJones]

On a lighter note. I don't know if you could carve your face onto the moon's surface, but you could definitely get CHA on it

Anyone who play's civ 3 knows that the first person to get star wars up and running , coupled with a good stockpile, wins.

Of course that's if the others don't decide your too close to having star wars and decide to "remove your ability to make war".

 

[wild9]

Star Wars wouldn't have stopped 9/11. So, what do these pillars of the community fighting our behalf, plan to do: fly countless planes to take out countless martyrs, or address the root cause(s) of the problem? In my mind I know which option is more sustainable, for society as a whole - not just the people building these weapons.