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The Jet Fighter Laser Cannon
fahrbot-bot sends in a Register piece about DARPA issuing the penultimate contract for what is intended to be a jet-mounted laser cannon. The Reg outdoes itself in a BOTEC involving downsizing to shark scale. "The US military will shortly issue a brace of contracts for 'refrigerator sized' laser blaster cannons. One of the deals will see a full-power ground prototype built which will be the final stage prior to America's first raygun-equipped jet fighter. ... If it scales down far enough, this would seem to put handheld HELL-guns within an order of magnitude of the striking power offered by conventional small-arms. A 9mm pistol bullet has about 750 joules muzzle energy: a 5kg portable HELL-ray weapon would put out this much energy in a blast less than a second long. ... A dolphin can carry a human being weighing up to 100kg along for a ride. A thoroughbred shark in good training can surely match this. Thus, we seem to be looking at practicable head-[laser] output in the 20-kilowatt range."
the knife:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cudCajMNRM0&feature=player_embedded
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It begs the question of why people use big sounding words and phrases they obviously don't understand. It literally makes my head explode.
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I would like an elegant weapon from an more civilized age.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
How can you guys deflect protons when you're being so negative?
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