Man, I love technology...

[Monster Dave]

You know, the evolution of technology is just awesome. So check this out, today I learned that the Air Force successfully tested a lethal oxygen-iodine high-powered laser in flight at a range of 9 miles, and although they won't give out the specs on the laser, they do say that it is 25 times more powerful than any other laser ever built. Boeing reps had this to say:

"We have demonstrated that an airborne system can fire a high-power laser in flight and deliver laser beam energy to a ground target," says Boeing's Gary Fitzmire, in a statement. The airborne laser's "ultra-precision engagement capability will dramatically reduce collateral damage."

Awesome. And with the ground breaking ceremony today for Virgin Atlantics space port in New Mexico we're getting closer and closer to:




Now come on, be honest, how many of you by this point have an urge to go "pew pew" out loud?! LOL!!!

[teddy037.2]

< geek >

sweeeeeeet

< /geek >

[Exar Kun]

How long till the video of the testing hits youtube? I wanna see that in action!

< geek >

sweeeeeeet

< /geek >

Don't kid yourself, you can never truly turn your geek off.

[erkishhorde]

Hmmm... Wonder how much dps the laser does. I mean, does it burn through 1/4 steel in 1/2 a second?

[teddy037.2]

How long till the video of the testing hits youtube? I wanna see that in action!

Don't kid yourself, you can never truly turn your geek off.

do you see the slash?

/ means off, baby! OOOFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!

[Monster Dave]

do you see the slash?

/ means off, baby! OOOFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!

It's never completely off!!!

[He Man]

i wonder how close to the star trek saucer shape you can really get. id inmagine those warp nacells would collapse on it slef!

[A.duc.H.duc.]

do you see the slash?

/ means off, baby! OOOFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!

The fact that you're saying your geekiness is off based on a derivative of an HTML tag only proves that it isn't off.

[Monsterlover]

A.ducH.duc FTW

[ZLTFUL]

i wonder how close to the star trek saucer shape you can really get. id inmagine those warp nacells would collapse on it slef!

Actually, the stresses in a warp field would really be minimal...as long as there is no matter in your flight path...

[Monster Dave]

Actually, the stresses in a warp field would really be minimal...as long as there is no matter in your flight path...

I love that we know so much but can actually do so little.....we should ask Chuck Norris what he thinks.

[He Man]

Actually, the stresses in a warp field would really be minimal...as long as there is no matter in your flight path...

Im talking about building the thing on earth as depicted in the picture. in space any shape would suffic, its a pretty much a vaccum up there.

how it would lift off and not snap the nacells as it launches up is a problem far beyond my inmagination. the first star trek ships didnt have hull integrity shields, just reinforced armor.

[JEFF_H]

Isnt that the same laser they had in Real Genius?

[teddy037.2]

The fact that you're saying your geekiness is off based on a derivative of an HTML tag only proves that it isn't off.

oh, you hush.

[Holden]

Im talking about building the thing on earth as depicted in the picture. in space any shape would suffic, its a pretty much a vaccum up there.

how it would lift off and not snap the nacells as it launches up is a problem far beyond my inmagination. the first star trek ships didnt have hull integrity shields, just reinforced armor.

That's a good point. The thing would collapse as soon as they took the scaffolding off.

I'd always imagined they were built in space... but then what about Star Trek is realistic?