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Laser Rifles. In Real Life.

Velociraptor42

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That title should say it all.

Okay, as per usual, beginning link to article (I get all of my blog post ideas from links my dad sends me)

We all know laser cutting is a thing. Or, if you didn't, you know now. Of course, there are many different ways of using laser cutting. You can vaporize things, crack them with thermal stress, "stealth dice" (one of my personal favorites), um..."melt and blow" (that's what it's actually called), and more. Using high energy photons and laserizing many different materials (yes laserizing is now a word) leads to a whole world of burning things!

Back to the article. Basically, this company TWI has now made a portable, handheld laser rifle. It's supposed to be used for decommissioning things in places where larger robotically (I swear that actually is a word) controlled lasers can't reach.

But really. This just means that the Terminator is going to happen. We already named one of the satellite networks Skynet. Why not make laser rifles. What could ever go wrong.

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