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Warfare at the Speed of Light

Posted by michael on Monday October 20, 2003 @10:03AM from the also-good-for-making-popcorn dept.

unassimilatible writes "From the They Said It Couldn't Be Done Dept., the Oakland Tribune reports that the Lawrence Livermore Labratory is ensuring that the Pentagon, inside of a decade, could be armed with a beam weapon that is near-instantaneous, gravity-free and truly surgical, focusing to such hair-splitting accuracy that it could avoid civilians while predetonating munitions miles away - perhaps someday even being mounted on Humvees."

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Re:Say again? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-20 10:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

+5 Fatality

As I sit and read the 10-odd replies to the great grandparent of this post, I'm realizing that not many got the joke. What are they teaching in science classes these days?