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ta1243
10 days ago
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ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the Un...
Including of course the laser. It's about 240 kilotons of TNT, or over 10 times the power of the nagasaki or hiroshmia bombs.
frollogaston
10 days ago
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Yeah, or even if it were some more reasonable amount of energy that doesn't self-destruct it, there are probably applications where you want to hit a small area quickly without burning things around it.
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