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Ultra-Powerful Laser To Be Built In Romania
cripkd writes "The 3rd pillar from the ELI program was given the go ahead Tuesday: 'In Romania, Magurele, the ELI pillar will focus on laser-based nuclear physics. For this purpose, an intense gamma-ray source is foreseen by coupling a high-energy particle accelerator to a high-power laser.' Here are some specs and details about why this is not your regular key-chain laser."
Now all they need is a really big shark.
Is buying a Harley Davidson as your first motorcycle since you were 16 at age 49 a midlife crisis issue?
What's the point if we can't put one of these on a fricken shark? I mean, seriously. Is that too much to ask?
Of course you can put one these on a shark. Unfortunately, you'd have to clone that Megalodon first, they're kind of rare these days.
Ezekiel 23:20
This is a clear step towards Dracula's moon laser.
http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p16/
The main problem with this is that it will inevitably lead to a Vampire vs Werewolf arms race.
You missed first post. Mods, he's redundant. In fact, the previous shark comment (actual FP) should be marked redundant as well because it's just too damned obvious.
You want a non-obvious, far better (but still bad) shark joke? Come on, guys, have you no originality at all?
Q: Why did the shark cross the road?
A: To get to Romania.
Free Martian Whores!
A week ago or so I wanted to build some sort of passive optical arrangement to combine two images additively. One can't do it with mirrors and if one tries to do it with lenses, or tries to use internal total reflection somehow it will turn out that one can never get the internally reflected ray and the ray the ray entering through the surface of the lens to coincide. In fact I ended up strongly suspecting that it couldn't be done.
But "coherently adding" beams sounds exactly like this. Does anyone know if it really is the same thing, or how it works?
Didn't Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno show us why this is a bad idea?
the Romanians should well know only UV lasers can harm the sons and daughters of Vlad, Count of Draco; and only silver ion particle beams harm the lycanthrope
Firstly, let us start with another rant: the ESM treaty has nothing to do with the spending of the individual member states, this is handled by another treaty called TSCG (known as the fiscal compact), assuming you mean to protest against the fiscal compact and not actually the ESM treaty.
By the fiscal compact, no one need to ask permission for spending, unless the spend well above what they have previously agreed to, which actually means running a huge deficit, which in turn result in the deficit having to be payed back by your children. From that point of view, there is no democracy in overspending now, since the people who have to pay for do not yet have the right to vote and the government does not spend their money, they spend their future tax payers money. The treaty also does allow for substantial deficits, but only if the budget is balanced over a cycle. I.e. you can go minus now, as long as you go plus in a few years. In addition, the people who have negotiated the treaty are democratically elected.
I do not know how you interpret the EU as the successor of nazi-germany, this just plain ridiculous. I will ignore Godwin on this, as I honestly believe that you do the sufferers of the war a great injustice by saying this. The Union's primary purpose is after all to build a lasting peace in Europe. This said, the Union also have very high standards for human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Everything opposite of the third reich.
Should we go on... you may complain against some democratic deficiencies in the EU, but these issues are being solved. The main blockers of democratic reform so far has been the UK and some other member states. In either case, from the next EP elections (2014), the commission president will for example be selected from candidates laid out by the parliamentary groups before the election. In addition Barroso and others (e.g. the future group), have been pushing sweeping changes of the Union to guarantee power to the parliament. The lack of democracy at the EU level is solely the result of it being an intergovernmental organisation to some extent where the states have too much to say about things.
"Civis Europaeus sum!"