Worlds most powerfl laser fires most powerful blast
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Pic of said test-fire
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As a physicist I can tell you guys that most scientists don't like number crunching news like this.
[QUOTE=Killuah;35248042]As a physicist I can tell you guys that most scientists don't like number crunching news like this.[/QUOTE]
Media has a tendency to over exaggerate what the scientists are reporting. Like the below example:
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[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;35247768]Well no mirror can reflect 100% of the light that strikes it, so yes.[/QUOTE]
Well mirriors are an important part of this things inner-workings considering they have to focus all the beams into a single point. All the lasers are lined up abreast, and have to be angled at the target sphere. You are correct though, and I imagine the only reason it does not burn through the mirrors is because it's only activated for such a short amount of time.
[QUOTE=OvB;35248076]
Well mirriors are an important part of this things inner-workings considering they have to focus all the beams into a single point. All the lasers are lined up abreast, and have to be angled at the target sphere. You are correct though, and I imagine the only reason it does not burn through the mirrors is because it's only activated for such a short amount of time.[/QUOTE]
That's what suspect myself, with the amount of focused energy there having it strike a mirror for anything longer than a very brief period of time is a very bad idea
Edit:
I just checked Wikipedia and apparently industrial mirrors used in lasers are [I]much[/I] more reflective than normal mirrors too, being more than 90% reflective of all light
[quote=Wikipedia] For technical applications such as laser mirrors, the reflective coating is typically applied by vacuum deposition on the front surface of the substrate. This eliminates double reflections (a weak reflection from the surface of the glass, and a stronger one from the reflecting metal) and reduces absorption of light by the mirror. Technical mirrors may use a silver, aluminium, or gold coating (the latter typically for infrared mirrors), and achieve reflectivities of 90–95% when new. A protective transparent overcoat may be applied to prevent oxidation of the reflective layer. Applications requiring higher reflectivity or greater durability, where wide bandwidth is not essential, use dielectric coatings, which can achieve reflectivities as high as 99.999% over a narrow range of wavelengths.[/quote]
Get away from the beam!
Imagine if the target chamber had air in it, there would've been a neat boom in it from the air ionizing.
[img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110815011139/inciclopedia/images/c/ca/Ion_cannon.jpg[/img]
One step closer.
Fire it into space and watch it hit something 600,000 lightyears later.
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;35250164]Fire it into space and watch it hit something 600,000 lightyears later.[/QUOTE]
Poor Krypton.
How! How [I]powerfl[/I]!
So... could we top asteroids?
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;35246727]It's probably not safe to look at directly.[/QUOTE]
Must be a Class 3A at least!
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[QUOTE=Bat-shit;35247680]“This event marks a key milestone in the National Ignition Campaign’s drive toward [b]fusion ignition[/b],” Moses said.
So what's fusion ignition? Some type of an engine, for thrust?[/QUOTE]
Fusion Ignition is the process of turning on your mid-size sedan
[img]http://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/pictures/VEHICLE/2012/Ford/2012.ford.fusion.20375660-300x189.jpg[/img]
Disclaimer: This is not a weaponized laser. It's a fusion power device. It will never fire at any targets other than a deuterium and tritium sphere. It is completely stationary.
2.03 MJ / 23 billionths of a second = 88 trillion watts
88 trillion watts < 411 trillion watts
Me no understand
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;35251132]2.03 MJ / 23 billionths of a second = 88 trillion watts
88 trillion watts < 411 trillion watts
Me no understand[/QUOTE]
It means that someone somewhere has their math wrong
[QUOTE=Atlascore;35246831]Go look up what the National Ignition Facility is.[/QUOTE]
Well, sorry for not giving a fuck about lasers.
[QUOTE=paul simon;35251273]It means that someone somewhere has their math wrong[/QUOTE]
Well I suppose the wattage rating refers to the rate of energy consumption of the entire system, and since due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics entropy must increase, the majority of power consumption was lost as heat.
Wow who cares
Go make something that will actually help us
Build it small enough, make FTL, then WE WILL BE READY!
[QUOTE=Xieneus;35250061][img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110815011139/inciclopedia/images/c/ca/Ion_cannon.jpg[/img]
One step closer.[/QUOTE]
We're just missing a giant disco ball to send into orbit.
[QUOTE=Xieneus;35250061]Ion Cannon Image
One step closer.[/QUOTE]
But, that's Ions, not lasers.
[QUOTE=Jaks0;35252424]Wow who cares
Go make something that will actually help us[/QUOTE]
Yeah, fuck developing things, let's skip that part and just make the fusion reactor!
Why haven't we thought of that!? :downs:
[QUOTE=nox;35247467]Imagine if it didn't, the laser is fired at some enemy ship and someone puts up a mirror, deflects the shot right back to the ship that shot it. :v:[/QUOTE]
But then you decided to bring a mirror as well, and then...
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[QUOTE=Stizzles;35257715]But then you decided to bring a mirror as well, and then...
[IMG]http://community.secondlife.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/16089i45ECE3A5C2C39A80/image-size/large?v=mpbl-1&px=600[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Then the ships will try to catch the laserbeam , which bounces against invisible walls for no reason?
I find it funny how this guy is named Moses and wants to simulate fusion ingition.
[QUOTE=OvB;35251055]Disclaimer: This is not a weaponized laser. It's a fusion power device. It will never fire at any targets other than a deuterium and tritium sphere. It is completely stationary.[/QUOTE]
We should figure out how to weaponize it.
Hopefully we won't ever need to actually [b]use[/b] it but if we actually get a big rock on a collision course with the Earth it couldn't hurt to be able to blow it up with a giant laser
[QUOTE=Dlaor-guy;35247400]Would it burn through a mirror?[/QUOTE]
Even if a mirror is highly polished and, say, 99% reflective, that remaining 1% of energy deposited into the mirror is still more than enough to instantaneously destroy the mirror before any energy can really be reflected.
Someone should donate an iPad to them and see what it does.
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;35250164]Fire it into space and watch it hit something 600,000 lightyears later.[/QUOTE]
1,200,000 years later earth gets one back.
[QUOTE=OvB;35248076]Media has a tendency to over exaggerate what the scientists are reporting. Like the below example:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/tiu7K.gif[/img]
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Well mirriors are an important part of this things inner-workings considering they have to focus all the beams into a single point. All the lasers are lined up abreast, and have to be angled at the target sphere. You are correct though, and I imagine the only reason it does not burn through the mirrors is because it's only activated for such a short amount of time.[/QUOTE]
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