holy frick this is a big laser!!!

This is in the guinness book of records 2009 for the most powerful laser

nice, its freakin huge

LOL, Everythings bigger in Texas

yea... even the explosions 14 Die In Massive Explosion At Texas City Refinery - Houston News Story - KPRC Houston

i want that laser in my backyard blow up some stars and the moon

Don't be fooled guys, but that laser is actually very weak. It only puts out 1 joule, which is nothing. If you stood in front of it your clothes would just absorb it easily. If it fires once every 10 seconds (which it wouldn't) it's only as powerful as one of our 100mW lasers running continuously

The reason it has so many watts is because that's power over time, and that thing has a tiny, tiny pulse length. So with such a tiny pulse length, it makes the laser have high watts.

Now if that was a CONTINUOUS laser, then it might be useful

1 joule was just for the "elongated seed". The actual output is supposedly 250 joules...

EDIT: oh, looks like all told the output actually is 1 joule. My bad.