Mad Scientists Craft Atomic Laser

[Alaster Angelo]

Study what's happening in the Sun? Are you guys trying to awaken Surtur and cause Ragnarok or something? Instead, let's make asteroid shooting a national sport.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Can I microwave popcorn from orbit?

 

[Auirc]

First of all, that laser is freakin' awesome.

Second,this laser probably takes an enormous amount of power to do what is does, so we're not going to see it strapped to anything anytime soon until someone can figure out how to strap a several gigawatt nuclear power-plant along with the laser to whatever you're strapping it to. Not to mention the laser is probably also gigantic.

 

[park92]

now put this on a satelite, launch it into space and we can finally have splasers.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I really hope that isn't portable and it takes a long time to aim. I don't want to be shot by a laser. D:

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

The first thing I thought of after reading the title was "Dom, we gotta drop the Hammer!"

Is this the beginning of the new age of weaponry? We can all hope so! And i'm sure the non-war practicalities for this are astounding anyways...

...until they accidentally destroy the sun...

 

[Soak]

SCIENCE!

Well, i guess, since global warming doesn't exist, it's a great idea to shoot those lasers at our sun, just to see what happens. Prepare for a "hot summer" people.

 

[krazykidd]

Now I just need to steal it, and find a way to mount it on the moon....

Muwahahahahaha! [http://youtu.be/7edeOEuXdMU]

Forget mounting it on the moon , i'm totally writting my name on the surface of the moon so everyones knows who i am . THATS how you get into history books .

How long till we have an "accident" with the new deathray laser beam?

 

[superbatranger]

I want one. Now. Put it on my card.

 

[Strazdas]

I was wondering why did the title says "mad scientists craft atomic laser". as far as i can see they are not mad.

 

[C F]

Not to mention the laser is probably also gigantic.

Couldn't the same be said of the first computers? Now we have things like the iPod.
Sometime in the future, I want pewpew pocket laz0rs.

Science is awesome.

 

[Strazdas]

Firt computers used to fit whole room. 50 years later we have them fit in pocket and be 1000 times faster.

 

[ErgoCSS]

Very cool news though and hey... War Mongers and be happy that even the most peaceful technology will oftentimes be corrupted for battle. I'm sure given time someone will eventually weaponize this... if they haven't already!

For some reason this just made me think of:

On Topic: With all this I'm hearing about lasers I'm wondering how far away some more portable lasers with some really decent practical aplications are.

Off Topic: That vid just made me laugh out my guts.

On Topic: I bet the nuke was created also to serve man kind in some stupid way.. By killing it?