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  1. 30-Jul-2008 #1
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    Laser Jumbo - Am I missing something?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7531046.stm

    How is this thing useful?

    With a laser range of just a few 100 kilometers? And obviously needing the plane within range, at the right time?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7531046.stm

    How is this thing useful?

    With a laser range of just a few 100 kilometers? And obviously needing the plane within range, at the right time?
    Gotta start somewhere. The first firearms weren't all that impressive for military purposes either. They got better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bub666 View Post
    You always have to start off small.
    Exactly what I tell my girlfriend...
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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