From: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:44:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [NOISE] What is "laser material"?
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At 10:56 AM 04/26/96 -0700, Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com> wrote:
>>Does anyone have any idea what "more laser material" means?
>
>It means that the laser burns itself up when fired.  Either they are pumping
>gas into the laser and eventually run out or they are using something that
>is solid or semi-solid (yes, you can make a laser out of Jello!) that
>becomes non-functional after a certain number of uses.
>
>The plans I have for a somewhat high powered laser (10 watts) requires
>nitrogen pumped through the tube.  Run out of nitrogen and you run out of
>laser...
>
>The problem with laser based weapons is they are weather dependant.  Try
>using a laser in the rain and see how coherent a beam you get.

To _some_ extent, that's a function of the laser's frequency. An X-ray
laser, for example..... :-)

Dave "Do not look into laser with remaining eyeball" Merriman

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