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Navy laser sets ship on fire

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  • RobotWorkshopRobotWorkshop Posts: 2,307
    edited 2011-04-11 18:15
    Maybe that will help take care of some of the Pirates on the high seas!
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,260
    edited 2011-04-11 18:41
    That's some accurate laser aiming & tracking on a vehicle in rough seas!
  • sam_sam_samsam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286
    edited 2011-04-13 17:48
    That's some accurate laser aiming & tracking on a vehicle in rough seas!

    Maybe that will help take care of some of the Pirates on the high seas!
    Just want we wanted but were afraid to ask for it WOW
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2011-04-13 18:09
    Lasers and robots go together like peanut-butter and jelly. So here's one of the more interesting laser videos on You Tube:
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-04-13 20:57
    Navy laser sets ship on fire...

    But did they do it on purpose?
  • $WMc%$WMc% Posts: 1,884
    edited 2011-04-15 17:08
    I herd there is a higher setting on the Laser that will do more than just set fire to an object.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-04-15 17:19
    Pffft! Big deal! Archimedes did that more than 2000 years ago:

    (Well, okay, he apparently didn't -- really -- but it still makes a good story.)

    -Phil
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2011-04-16 03:20
    My first impression was that this really would put the Somali pirates in their place.
    But I opened today's Taipei Times to see that Taiwan feels this laser will offer an excellent defence against invasion by China via their recent development of small missile launching boats.

    Is that good news? I dunno.... Another arms race is in some ways disheartening, but living in Taiwan these days is a bit like living in Berlin when there was and East and a West Germany.

    The one thing that I dislike about technology is that we always seem to make swords and only afterwards plowshares.
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