Saturday, June 30, 2012

Lightning Electrolaser

An old weapon from science fiction posits a hand-held laser used to ionize the air, then firing an electric charge down the ionized path to the target: the "electrolaser." While prototypes have been around for a while, this one guides a lightning bolt to the target...and you don't even have to be all that accurate, since the bolt will automatically deviate to the target, assuming it has a lower resistance:

http://www.army.mil/article/82262/Picatinny_engineers_set_phasers_to__fry_/

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