Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-hour program of music and technological curiosities, which included a laser show, a 600-foot inflatable rainbow, floating platforms full of musicians and a life-size John Harvard marionette, took place as scheduled, but many observers said the marvelsfailed to impress...
...Aqua Mirage laser show, designed by MITFellow Paul Earls, drew criticism from anotherobserver who said, "If this is what a laser showis, what's the hope for Star Wars...
...hour-long show, which was produced byshining a four-watt laser at a curtain of water infront of the Weeks Bridge, featured images ofdolphins and other sea creatures. But thereflections of the images on the bridge and themist in the air rendered the designs nearlyunrecognizable...
...turntable to re-create the sound. In digital recording, the music is sampled by a microchip at the rate of 44,100 times a second and expressed as a series of ones and zeros. Encoded in invisible "pits," the numbers are read by a player equipped with a laser beam, which relays the information to a microcomputer that converts the digits back to sound...
...noon Tuesday, six French-made F-1 Mirages streaked out of the west. They fired Exocet missiles and dropped laser-guided bombs on an estimated 15 tankers anchored off Sirri and on the terminal itself. Three ships were hit, ^ and one, the 233,788-ton Iranian supertanker Azarpad, was consumed by flames. Fires on two other vessels and the 6-sq.-mi. island took a day to control. In all, at least eight seamen died...