Traahn
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Posts: 3,305 | Sun Ray
on Saturday, May, 30, 2009 11:36 PM
Holy cow, so this is what the Lawrence Livermore Lab has been up to for the last 27 years. First they digitize Flynn into the computer world, and now they're making laserbeams that do this?? 
Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off a laser that can burn as hot as a star — and this time it's real.
US lab debuts super laser - Equipment connected to a house-sized sphere can focus 192 laser beams on a small point, generating temperatures and pressures that exist at cores of stars or giant planets.
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NIF will be able to create conditions and conduct experiments never before possible on Earth, according to the laboratory.
A fusion reaction triggered by the super laser hitting hydrogen atoms will produce more energy than was required to prompt "ignition," according to NIF director Edward Moses.
"This is the long-sought goal of 'energy gain' that has been the goal of fusion researchers for more than half a century," Moses said.
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Scientists say that NIF also promises groundbreaking discoveries in planetary science and astrophysics by recreating conditions that exist in supernovas, black holes, and in the cores of giant planets.
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"NIF has the potential to revolutionize our energy system, teaching us a new way to harness the energy of the sun to power our cars and homes."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090530/ts_alt_afp/usitresearchmilitarylaser_20090530082418 |
Maybe this will be the successor to Blu-Ray? heh
    
I'm getting out of here right now, and you guys are invited.   -----^
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Cam_the_Man
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Posts: 1,747 | Re: Sun Ray
on Sunday, May, 31, 2009 4:41 PM
 
So basically it's that sun-thing from Spiderman 2.
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We're screwed.
 
 In the midst of Team Fortress 2:
TRON.dll: (Captures the intelligence) "I have take the intelligence and it will cause meltdown!"
Cam_the_Man: "No! Not all of Dallas!"
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