So that’s how you make a laser work
March 19, 2009 at 5:25 pm | kendall | scientific integrity, wild webPhotoshop!
This image is from a Wired! article on a 100kW mobile laser defense system that was recently tested. I guess they’re planning on just airbrushing out the warheads faster than the Iranians can photoshop them in.
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how do you know that’s not a 100-kW laser?
Comment by sam — March 19, 2009 #
Maybe they turned down the power setting?
Comment by mitch — March 19, 2009 #
Maybe it’s just set to stun.
Comment by Kyle Finchsigmate — March 20, 2009 #
Even on stun, you won’t
1) Be able to see the Rayleigh scattering from the other side of a high reflector
2) Change directions going through an iris
3) Bounce a laser off the frosted side of a mirror
Comment by kendall — March 21, 2009 #
those are metamaterial optical componants.
Comment by sam — March 21, 2009 #