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The laser's output tops a petawatt, which is a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) watts of power.

The university should be on the look-oot for a purple/green haired individual hell bent on stealing this. picked by punthe 4 months ago

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19	blurmore

4 months ago

PYOO! PYOO!

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23	sykeo56

4 months ago

Scientists have switched on the world's most powerful laser, which for one-trillionth of a second is 2,000 times more powerful than all the power plants in the United States. The laser's output tops a petawatt, which is a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) watts of power.

So much for energy conservation. Don't forget to turn that bad boy off before you leave the room!

The actual laser pulse will come out of the round hatch seen at the left of the chamber, where it will be directed at a target to mimic a nuclear explosion or an exotic dense star.

...or do some other entirely unexpected crap - like end the world, travel through time, raise the dead, or prevent plime from ever crashing again.

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12	drstrang...

4 months ago

LAZLO HOLLYFELD!

..uncle Rico??? is that you?

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7	Moogle

4 months ago

Next on the docket; the 'Alan Parsen's Project'.

Mini-me not included.

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10	joeyneut...

4 months ago

The wattage is extremely high, but the pulse duration is so small that the total energy output is about that consumed by a household lightbulb for a couple of seconds.

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