Russia new wonder weapon?

[Raging Deadstar]

Lol *looks at mobile phone...*

*promptly runs outside, calls someone and starts wavings his hands about to see if it is true!*

I'll update you on my progress once i'm extra crispy!!!

[Puke]

Hmm. I think that orbital anti-personnel laser was from the movie Real Genius, which I did rather enjoy. While something like that might be possible, lasers lose focus over range and dissipate GREATLY in atmosphere, it just would not be practical.

We do have air-to-air and air-to-ground and ground-to-air lasers, I would expect to see them get more powerfull and more wide-spread once the politics arround them die down. ground-to-ground lasers dont seem to be practical yet, but maybe in 20 years we will start to prototype them.

[Timstone]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
Lol *looks at mobile phone...*

*promptly runs outside, calls someone and starts wavings his hands about to see if it is true!*

I'll update you on my progress once i'm extra crispy!!!

"Look who's been left in the oven too long." (The Violator talking to Spawn)

[Timstone]

Why the hell would you like to create a laser in the atmosphere?! Lasers are distorted far too much to be of serious use in our atmosphere. Or you need a very big source of energy or you need some miracle design. But then again wonder happen every day.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Puke:
Hmm. I think that orbital anti-personnel laser was from the movie Real Genius, which I did rather enjoy. While something like that might be possible, lasers lose focus over range and dissipate GREATLY in atmosphere, it just would not be practical.

We do have air-to-air and air-to-ground and ground-to-air lasers, I would expect to see them get more powerfull and more wide-spread once the politics arround them die down. ground-to-ground lasers dont seem to be practical yet, but maybe in 20 years we will start to prototype them.

I'm pretty sure there were worries about this being implemented lol. Paranoid People

But is till dread to think what other weapons our governements are cooking up *who's paranoid now? *

On good news i'm still alive and not crispy!!

[spoon]

Saw this article linked to on slashdot:
Popular Science

Fear the Tungsten Rod!

[dogscoff]

From the article posted by spoon:

says Patrick Garrett, an associate analyst at GlobalSecurity.org. "It harkens back to the good old days of WWII."

What a prick! "The good old days" of world war two! Does he even know what a world war is? But then, as an associate analyst at GlobalSecurity.org (with the emphasis on the first three letters) he probably makes a lot of money out of wholescale death and destruction. Anyone who thinks war is such a jolly old romp should be dumped straight on the front lines of the next grisly conflict our illustrious leaders choose to inflict upon the world.

But otherwise, a very interesting article. Scary as hell, but interesting.