Japan claims to have fired the most powerful laser ever created. Osaka researchers were able to produce a 2-petawatt laser beam using a device known as the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiment (LFEX).
The power of the ‘Death Star’-like beam is equivalent to 1,000 times the world’s total electricity consumption, the scientists claim.
To put that in context, Rheinmetall Defense was recently able to shoot a drone down a mile away using a 50kW laser.
The 50kW laser was 10 billion times less powerful that the one used in Japan Original post by https://www.facebook.com/pages/Celebrity-Entertainment-News/958122394248297?ref=hl
Hopefully, this device doesn’t fall into the hands of a rogue oceanographer who figures out how to attach it to a giant shark. Because if there’s one thing that should scare us, it’s sharks with laser beams attached to their heads
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