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...quite "phasers on stun" - or not yet, anyway - but the U.S. appears to have finally developed a battlefield laser weapon. Now the question is whether it's up to its mission. The Pentagon announced Thursday that the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) designed for Israel to deploy on its northern border was successfully tested in New Mexico Tuesday against an armed Katyusha rocket (the favored artillery of the Hezbollah guerrillas for attacking northern Israeli towns). The system tracked the incoming rocket, and blew it up with an invisible laser beam created by a chemical reaction in a battlefield weapon. "This...
...makes its task that much more challenging. Then again, it has the advantage of speed, attacking its target with a sustained beam that travels at the speed of light rather than trying to hit a bullet with another bullet." Although the U.S. says it has no plan to field laser weapons of its own, if THEL proves successful in testing for attack by multiple rockets, the temptation will certainly grow. While Ronald Reagan's lasers-in-space missile shield may be some way off, yet, what army wouldn't want a death ray if there was one going...
There's a long-standing debate about MDMA's dangers, which will take much more research to resolve. The theory is that MDMA's perils spring from the same neurochemical reaction that causes its pleasures. After MDMA enters the bloodstream, it aims with laser-like precision at the brain cells that release serotonin, a chemical that is the body's primary regulator of mood. MDMA causes these cells to disgorge their contents and flood the brain with serotonin...
GIRL TECH LASER CHAT $15 Who says wireless has to cost a lot? Girls can beam brief voicecasts to one another up to 35 ft. apart...
...soldiers are targeted by enemy Scuds during the conflict, martial lightning bolts--actually oxygen-iodine lasers--will blow the missiles from the sky before they ever get close to their targets. The Air Force wants to outfit a fleet of 747s with lasers. These "Warbirds" could explode enemy missiles shortly after launch, well before they could unleash their batches of warheads on American soldiers or local civilians. Computers on the plane will bend the laser's "rubber mirror" hundreds of times a second to keep the beam fixed on the missile's skin for the three to five seconds needed...