Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Aquilai on April 11, 2011, 08:53:59 AM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13033437 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13033437)
I guess the name "HELfire" would have been too cheesy! There's definitely been work on lasers as weapons before such as on planes. Now they could be installed onto ships. From the look of the video there doesn't seem to be any sci-fi like visible beam which I wasn't expecting from lasers (because you need a medium to light it up) so maybe this would be the predecessor to shredder/dracon beam type technology. Does anyone else feel the sci-fi future is arriving slowly? I half expect lasers to be used in protected buildings such as embassies in a few years.
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A theoretical physicist Michio Kaku
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_of_the_Impossible
predicts advanced laser technology in about 100 or 200 years.
Along with Force Fields, Invisibility, Teleportation, Telepathy, Psychokinesis, Advanced Robots, Extraterrestrials and UFO's, Starships, and Antimatter.
Read that book, it's cool. :)
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Wow nice! I'd be interested to read that sometime. I really like the idea of potential for technological development.
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Here's a documentary based on the book, and narrated by that physicist.
http://watchseries.eu/serie/physics_of_the_impossible
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*adds to list of "To Watch"*
Now I just need to go back in time and put the Nickelodeon Animorphs onto my "Don't watch EVER" list without creating a paradox!
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lol. I personally would love laser technology but what im really looking forward to is 4D video games like the ellemist had. Like Ultra Wii! you put yourself inside some kind of a roatating ball and put on a hlmet and as you run and swing your character does too. They actually do have that, I saw one in Vegas, $20 a ride for I think 5 minutes. At that expense it means we have it but its outragously expensive. I hope by the time im 40 theres one in every home >:D