Good thing it's in Europe!

[Bradfo69]

'cause the varience would be a bitch...

http://news.discovery.com/space/a-la...ts-111102.html



Insert the cursory -> "Yes, but would it burn black tape?"

[megaton]

With 200 petawatts of power?.
I don't think so.
Burn?
Disintegrate maybe.
BTW what is a petaWatt?

Cheers,
Ed
PS where I can buy a PetaWatt Laser?
or DIY plans.

[gottaluvlasers]

^^ Petawatt= 1 quadrillion (15 zeros if memory serves me correctly!)

1,000,000,000,000,000 watts! thats a bad ass laser right there!

[megaton]

^^ Petawatt= 1 quadrillion (15 zeros if memory serves me correctly!)

1,000,000,000,000,000 watts! thats a bad ass laser right there!

Thanks for the info Marc.

My little brain cant imagine that.

Cheers,
Ed

[-bart-]

Yeah, let's build a laser with a nohd measured in light-years

[mccarrot]

Yeah, let's build a laser with a nohd measured in light-years

LOL!

I did some calculations,

with a 200 Petawat laser with a 3mm beam and 1mRad divergence, the distance for a safe MPE (2,5mW/cm2) will be 3200000KM

If you put this laser on the moon to audiance scan the earth you will still be exceeding the MPE by 80.000x

If you audiance scan from mars you will be ok.

[White-Light]

LOL!


If you audience scan from mars you will be ok.

That could be the biggest dance party ever, the whole earth scanned in one go (or more correctly 1 side of the earth unless of course you used a bounce mirror!)

Be great to see this in a club though. Dance floor gets too crowded, turn the laser on, and its empty again, ash aside of course!

[steve-o]

(or more correctly 1 side of the earth unless of course you used a bounce mirror!)

LOL Put a huge bounce mirror on the moon .

[norty303]

Having read the article, they are going to have to keep its location incredibly secret. Otherwise every villain looking for world domination is going to be wanting to use it to cut their own secret agent in half...