Watching those big assed ships in Star Wars pummeling away at each other makes you wonder if such lasers will come to be. The answer is probably way sooner than you think. Lawerence Livermore labs is building a complex that will house the most powerful laser ever built. The heat generated by this laser will reach 180 million degrees Fahrenheit. The way it works is that if focuses the beams of 192 lasers at a single point. Into that spot they will put a tiny hydrogen fuel pellet. They hope to create a laser-triggered fusion reaction. For some reason the Death Star comes to mind.
Meanwhile people in Kansas are still arguing about evolution. What a big wide wonderful world it is.
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