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Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-not-look-directly-into-laser-beam-with-your-remaining-eye dept.

SniperClops writes, "China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft, according to sources." The article mentions the reluctance of the U.S. administration to talk about this "asymmetric" effort by the Chinese military.

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  1. Re:Seeing Red by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I bet the lasers are red in colour

    I bet the lasers are also red in color.

  2. Re:Seeing Red by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Language evolves, just like everything else. You can look that up in your local town sentry.

  3. Re:Seeing Red by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the U.S., 'colour' reads ass if it would be pronounced 'cohloor' or 'cohlowr'. It is pronounced more like 'culler', but just dropping the 'u' makes it much more clear that it represents the apperance of light bouncing off of something instead of it referring to one who weeds out members of a set.

    You see, you can't spell because you can't talk. If you pronounced the words with the subtle distinction the 'our' ending entails, you wouldn't be writing this nonsense now. There is an audible difference; and you're wrong on that point, too.

    Learn to talk. Learn to spell. Learn!

  4. Re:Seeing Red by martinussen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Untrue! Where I come from, I seem to recall that we spell it "kulør".