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Scientists Create World's First Atomic X-Ray Laser
New submitter newmission33 writes "Government researchers have created the fastest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, and have fulfilled a 1967 prediction that an atomic scale X-ray laser could be made in the same manner as visible-light lasers, according to a statement released Wednesday. Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used the Linac Coherent Light Source to aim a powerful X-ray source beam, a billion times brighter than any previous source, at a capsule of neon gas and triggered an 'avalanche' of X-ray emissions to become the world's first 'atomic X-ray laser.'"
Throw in a "jet" and "rocket" and I think we'll be all set.
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
That will be difficult since your average bacterium lacks an anus - wait, what?
"A laser is coherent light? So it talks?"
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
"A laser is coherent light? So it talks?"
More intelligently than many of the threads on Slashdot.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
You probably can't get much more detail than that; the detail doesn't exist.
You just have to Zoom, then Enhance.
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The main X-ray laser is about a mile long. We are working on breeding bigger sharks......
WARNING: Do not look into the atomic x-ray laser with remaining head.
Hmmm. Meant to publish that anonymously. Whoopsie. Hope I never run for office.
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