Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Lasers vs. Lightning


This Optics journal article is causing some buzz on the internets because it purports to show how you can cause lightning by shooting clouds with lasers. Or something. I am, quite frankly, not an expert in optics.

Anyhoo, what I wonder is why we're spending time trying to create lighting with lasers and not actually just weaponize the lasers in the first place. Yeah, a good lightning bolt up your foe's tuchus has appeal, but so does a laser bolt in the same locale.

And, Megan, if you read my blog, as a male I have to emphasize that I never lose the belief that I will, some day, have superpowers.

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