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**Glazy** · 02-22-2007, 03:04 PM

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Record power for military laser

**al3d** · 02-22-2007, 03:17 PM

it's like computers in the 60's that were the size of houses. now they fit in the palm of your hand..

...now they have the power..in 30 years, we'll see portable laser weapons..

kenny · 02-22-2007, 03:17 PM

O-k. ?

**Glazy** · 02-22-2007, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by al3d

it's like computers in the 60's that were the size of houses. now they fit in the palm of your hand..

...now they have the power..in 30 years, we'll see portable laser weapons..

I want one of those laser rifles that they had in Moonraker !! And that little blonde bird with the pigtails too !

**Freak** · 02-22-2007, 03:21 PM

^ LOL Yar she was cute.

But I reather go with something that looks like the rifle form FC

**Jedilaw** · 02-22-2007, 03:36 PM

Yeah, well, we haven't managed to kill ourselves off entirely with nukes, maybe high-powered lasers will do the trick.

Don't you just love how such a large percentage of human technological innovation has wound up dedicated to killing other humans? Yay Mankind! Go team!

**Glazy** · 02-22-2007, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Jedilaw

Yeah, well, we haven't managed to kill ourselves off entirely with nukes, maybe high-powered lasers will do the trick.

Don't you just love how such a large percentage of human technological innovation has wound up dedicated to killing other humans? Yay Mankind! Go team!

WAR...it's big business !!!

**farcry** · 02-22-2007, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Glazy

WAR...it's big business !!!

so true. Next they will be teaching weapons dealing in advanced buisness classes in colleges and uni's

**Freak** · 02-22-2007, 03:44 PM

Also in time of war, more Tech is devloped that can be used in time of peace. think how the world would be today, if none of the tech that came out of the WWII was only now being made. The world would look very different.

**Andrew March** · 02-22-2007, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Jedilaw

Don't you just love how such a large percentage of human technological innovation has wound up dedicated to killing other humans? Yay Mankind! Go team!

Actually, the majority of everyday inventions that we take for granted have come from military backgrounds.

The jet engine was designed as was the propellor engine for military aircraft, without them we wouldn't be flying around the world on vacation.

The Saturn V rocket that took man to the moon, was nothing more than a ballistic missle with a manned capsule strapped on the top.

Even the internet that we love so much, was designed as a secure (hahaha) network for the military and government to talk to each other in the event of a nuclear war.

Microwave oven, teflon, house alarms, car alarms, thousands of medicines, super glue, goretex, thinsulate, the list is honestly staggering.

So in actual fact it's the other way round.

Don't you just love how thousands of military inventions have improved our lifestyles and prolonged our lives.

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Freak Project Lead on SFM Film Realname: Dean Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, UK Age: 28 Posts: 8,035 Blog Entries: 7	Also in time of war, more Tech is devloped that can be used in time of peace. think how the world would be today, if none of the tech that came out of the WWII was only now being made. The world would look very different.
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