From: rsw@therandymon.com
On 2015-08-02, JAB wrote:
> Japan boffins successfully fires 2-petawatt laser beam using LFEX
>
> Researchers in Japan have accomplished something that scientists all
> over the world have been working to do for years but have failed
> dramatically each time. Researchers at Osaka University managed to
> fire the most powerful laser to ever see Earths surface, in a test
> event, which generated more than 1,000 times more energy than is used
> here on Earth collectively. While that might seem like a difficult
> number to wrap ones mind around, it was so powerful that the laser
> beam was only able to able to last a brief moment in time. A single
> picosecond, according to the team.
>
>
This sounds like the beginning of a good Douglas Adams bit.
"That laser traveled across the immensity of space and time, traveling
in a perfectly straight line across gravitational fields and spinning
solar systems, to where it entered the atmosphere of Tauron CenBlooie
II, and blasted the cocktail glass right out of the hand of the visiting
CenBlooie III ambassador. Offended, he launched a war that consumed the
two systems for the next seven millennia, at which point everyone
realized they'd forgotten why they were fighting, and decided to devote
their energy to women's fashion instead."
RIP Douglas Adams; no one did it like you did.
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