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X-Ray Laser


ReconRat

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Since I like weird science...

Wait, what? They said what?

amplified the laser light 200 million times

a billion to 10 billion times brighter than any previous x-ray source

2-million-degree Celsius on a target (3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit — hotter than the sun’s corona)

required input of 200 billion megawatts for a few millionths of a nanosecond

similar to attempts in the 1980s to build ultrahigh-power x-ray lasers to shoot down nuclear missiles

roughly the power output of a small country

sounds like a weapon of the future, but it's really meant to be an x-ray microscope of matter at the atomic and sub atomic level.

But it's possible weapons like this already exist.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/physicists-squeeze-x-ray-laser-l.html?ref=hp

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/laser-3-million-degrees/

Stanford Press Release

https://news.slac.stanford.edu/press-release/scientists-create-first-atomic-x-ray-laser

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