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World's Strongest Laser Unveiled at California Lab

Posted June 01, 2009 7:37 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

The world's most powerful laser, created to help keep tabs on the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile while also studying the heavens, has been unveiled. The super laser, known officially as the National Ignition Facility, was unveiled Friday at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about 50 miles east of San Francisco.

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06/01/2009 10:56 AM

" ... 192 separate laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet in one-thousandth of a second ... "

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06/01/2009 11:55 AM

Things are laid-back out in California, dude. Sometimes even laser beams just kick back and chill. Sleep in, grab a smoothie, work up a soild grindstone groove. Then cruise on in to the NIF for a high-energy afternoon of slammin' into a tasty pellet of all-natural hydrogen.
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