Azazello1313 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 kinda cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Lemme guess, they want a Govt grant to pay for it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 But, will they attach it to a shark's head? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 [minime] :divingboard: [/minime] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 That's pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Lemme guess, they want a Govt grant to pay for it all. hey, with all the current rage over "green jobs", they should go for it. shoot the moon. figuratively speaking, I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H8tank Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I can't wait to try it on pirates! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Agent Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Would probably take 1.21 gigawatts to destroy a hurricane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheikYerbuti Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 kinda cool Why don't you and the laser get a friggin room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Lemme guess, they want a Govt grant to pay for it all. If it works, it would be cheaper than rebuilding New Orleans every 20-30 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAUgrad Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Would probably take 1.21 gigawatts to destroy a hurricane. 1.21 Gigawatts.......Can't be done!!! Can't!!! Maybe a bolt of lightening! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 If it works, it would be cheaper than rebuilding New Orleans every 20-30 years. That was my thought. Assuming, again, that this thing would work. It would have to be something the government funded, if for no other reason than to avoid a situation where some dude owns the thing and gets in a price haggle with the gov't over using it in the event it's needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 "Star Wars" "weaponizing space" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 That was my thought. Assuming, again, that this thing would work. It would have to be something the government funded, if for no other reason than to avoid a situation where some dude owns the thing and gets in a price haggle with the gov't over using it in the event it's needed. I was being a smart ass. Now if it could be weaponized I might could get behind our government funding it. Could you imagine wiping out Iran or North Korea with no fallout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 I was being a smart ass. Now if it could be weaponized I might could get behind our government funding it. Could you imagine wiping out Iran or North Korea with no fallout. that would be so sweet. fry that little worm in N Korea with a giant magnifying glass in space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I was being a smart ass. Now if it could be weaponized I might could get behind our government funding it. Could you imagine wiping out Iran or North Korea with no fallout. None the less, if there was anything that should absolutely fall under the control of Government it's some massive freakin laser that can destroy hurricanes and god knows what else. And that being said, I'd hardly expect someone to build it on their own dime and then just hand it over. Also, smart ass or not, hurricanes ain't cheap, so you inadvertently made a good point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 None the less, if there was anything that should absolutely fall under the control of Government it's some massive freakin laser that can destroy hurricanes and god knows what else. And that being said, I'd hardly expect someone to build it on their own dime and then just hand it over. Also, smart ass or not, hurricanes ain't cheap, so you inadvertently made a good point. If I thought it was the governments place to pay for people poor choices in building sites I might agree with you. Unless of course that thing could be fine tuned to zap illegals as they are crossing the border. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 You know what'd be cool? If we set up a huge popcorn thing in the creator's house and aimed it and popped all that corn inside of his house. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 If I thought it was the governments place to pay for people poor choices in building sites I might agree with you. Unless of course that thing could be fine tuned to zap illegals as they are crossing the border. Considering earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods, there's a whole lot of "poor choices" of places to live in this country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 a precision guidance system would direct all that energy onto a patch of the Earth between .6 and 6 miles across FYI: hurricane-force winds from Katrina extended out 120 miles from Katrina's center. That means that Katrina's size was more than 45,000 square miles (or 7,500 times the size of the area that the laser beam would hit (assuming the maximum six-mile wide laser beam)). "You're gonna need a bigger boat laser." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 It's probably kind to call the project far fetched. Even Solaren's own CEO, Gary Sprinak, acknowledged this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 But don't lose all hope for hurricane-scale weather modding. NOAA hasn't. "Perhaps if the time comes when men and women can travel at nearly the speed of light to the stars, we will then have enough energy for brute-force intervention in hurricane dynamics," the agency's response concluded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Lemme guess, they want a Govt grant to pay for it all. "I don't know if it will ever be built or not," Spirnak said. "The only ones who would really do this is the government. No public company could ever handle the liability, but we'd love to build one for them." good call Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I don't know why this is such a big deal since our Government has admitted manipulating the weather dating back to Vietnam... they used it to make it rain where the enemy was and it would make them have to operate in complete slop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 FYI: hurricane-force winds from Katrina extended out 120 miles from Katrina's center. That means that Katrina's size was more than 45,000 square miles (or 7,500 times the size of the area that the laser beam would hit (assuming the maximum six-mile wide laser beam)). "You're gonna need a bigger boat laser." theoretically....if you can disrupt the eye, the force of the whole storm falls apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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