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Laser May Boost Search For Earthlike Planets 100 Fold

   Posted by scout  Promoted 2 days 22 hours ago  274 views   

    Technology / Science - Space  |   Comments 3 comments  | 

The dime-sized laser, to be described Thursday, May 8, at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, emits 10 billion pulses per second, each lasting about 40 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second), with an average power of 650 milliwatts.


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darkm47, on 5/9/2008 10:57:34 AM
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Screw other planets. I just wanna know what happens when I shine that in someones eyeball.
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Facehammer, on 5/9/2008 11:35:17 AM
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This:

http://fasterthantheworld.com/ScannersExplodingHead.gif
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Immaculate1, on 5/9/2008 2:49:44 PM
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This goes good until some alien civilisation finds they're bombarded by a laser and think we're attacking them. And then they'll come over to kick some human ass.
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