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ArcticMyst Security by Avery

University of Michigan's 300 terawatt laser

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iewed said:
A 3 Petawatt laser? Could you image what you could do with a 1 Yottawatt laser?

I could imagine what I would do with a 1 Yottawatt laser.....

I could shine it in your eye. ;D
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goldfingerfif said:
[quote author=iewed link=1203137166/15#15 date=1203729477]A 3 Petawatt laser? Could you image what you could do with a 1 Yottawatt laser?

I could imagine what I would do with a 1 Yottawatt laser.....

I could shine it in your eye.  ;D
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lol, 1 YW laser with 2000mRad divergence.....it could erase u from earth :p
 
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trueHOUSE said:
why would you make a 300 TW laser :-?

High power lasers are good source of ultrahigh electric fields, which have many uses in physics experiments.
 

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trueHOUSE said:
why would you make a 300 TW laser :-?

Personally, I'd pop balloons and see if I could light matches with it. But with something with that small of a beam diameter, it would be extremely tempting to see what would happen if you stood in front of it and fired the laser. Would it make an extremely tiny hole in you, or wipe you off the face of the Earth? Granted, I wouldn't be the one standing in front of the laser, I'd let someone else do that ;)
 

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i bet dtr is the first to make this laser in pointer form. 445nm obviously
 

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so by popping ballons and lighting matches I assume you all mean popping hot air balllons and zepplins, and lighting up matchstick factories from afar.

Bit pointless popping regular ballons with a laser of this calibre :p
 
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@ Other intended uses are lighting matches, popping balloons burning things like tape and trash bags

That sentence cough my eyes as well. With this laser there burning garbage bags? What a Waste!

:lasergun::lasergun::lasergun:
 
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Well it looks like I may have changed my mind about where I want to go to college :thinking:
 




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