Web News: Building the World's Most Powerful Laser

FunkyFresh · 23-May-05, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by CNN


	Laser aims to imitate sun's center, hydrogen bomb In a building the size of a football stadium, engineers have assembled the framework for a network of 192 laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet (305 meters) to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser. The trip will take one-thousandth of a second during which the light's energy is amplified many billions of times to create a brief laser pulse 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States. Full Story

Looks and sounds suspiciously like the Death Star to me...

DuckWarrior · 23-May-05, 01:35 PM

The goal is to create unimaginable heat -- 180 million degrees Fahrenheit
..."I call it the Death Star....riiiiiiight"

BobTheBuilder · 23-May-05, 02:38 PM

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	When the idea of a new, super laser first emerged in the early 1990s, the cost was put at less than $700 million. By the time construction began in 1997, the price had grown to $2.1 billion with completion by 2004; three years later it ballooned to $3.3 billion and the completion date delayed four years. Critics contend the price is now up to $5 billion

Can you say...boondoggle? ... I knew you could.

nev_payne · 23-May-05, 02:41 PM

Oh which one do I look in to shave? *BUZZZZZ* ARRRRGHHH!!!! My eye!!!!!

FunkyFresh · 23-May-05, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DuckWarrior


	180 million degrees Fahrenheit

I could use one of those in Maine -- only way to get all the BBQ'ing done before summer comes and goes!

Foe · 23-May-05, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by FunkyFresh


	I could use one of those in Maine -- only way to get all the BBQ'ing done before summer comes and goes!

ROFL FF! That is so true!

Have friends who live there. One of my friends called last summer in August to tell me how hot it was there. "The heat is awful". I asked her how hot, and she said, " Oh it must be 75 today." HUH? 75 here is May weather. August here is 98 - 100...without humidity.

Belgianwaffles · 23-May-05, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by FunkyFresh


	I could use one of those in Maine -- only way to get all the BBQ'ing done before summer comes and goes!

i loved maine when i lived there! where about do you live? i lived in falmouth right outside of portland.

i especially loved the winters i used to go to sugarloaf, sundayriver, shawnee peak, and a bunch of other ones i cant remember.

FunkyFresh · 23-May-05, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Belgianwaffles


	i loved maine when i lived there! where about do you live? i lived in falmouth right outside of portland. i especially loved the winters i used to go to sugarloaf, sundayriver, shawnee peak, and a bunch of other ones i cant remember.

Nice! I'm in South Portland, but I've got some friends in Falmouth (I wish I could afford to live there!).

Can't remember if Sugarloaf or Sunday River was the last one I went to, but in any case it was a lot of fun!

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Originally Posted by Portland Press Herald, 5/23/05


	FALMOUTH FRSDE - 11 rms, 3.14 ac w/125' frtge. $1,899,000. Garry Smith, CBRB 253-3185 FALMOUTH FORESIDE, single level living. Newly renov. $629K. 557-8865 FALMOUTH Waterfront, open flr. plan, 2 fplc, cherry/granite kit, 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, Water access. +2300s.f. $849K. 232-4446

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