Cool laser weapon, but why...............

[nipper]

Check out this cool new laser weapon developed by the Navy. But why oh why did they have to use an expensive boat with over $20,000 worth of outboards for the test? Why not use a really old boat with a single, older, outboard?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42538948/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/?GT1=43001

[RWilson2526]

Oh those old things....they probably had 100 hours on them so they were slated for replacement anyway.

[reelapeelin]

Check out this cool new laser weapon developed by the Navy. But why oh why did they have to use an expensive boat with over $20,000 worth of outboards for the test? Why not use a really old boat with a single, older, outboard?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42538948/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/?GT1=43001


Are you kiddin'??...an old boat w/a single wouldn't WASTE near enough of our tax dollars...be glad it wasn't new quad 300s!!...

[RidgeRunner]

The laser only took out one engine and ensuing fire did the balance of the damage. If I was running the test I would have insisted on a single engine boat to kill. It would make my test look better. Also, I don't know the range but if you put a mini gun and a rocket launcher on the boat they killed you'd have a pretty awesome combination. Personally, I would rather see the Opti's explode into a cloud of aluminum vapor, "Quicksilver Style". The slow burn down worked but I am too practical. Umm, how many people in the air and on the sea does it take for the laser to work? If it is a point and shoot. Turn it up...

[Road King Cole]

not sure how well that laser would work in a real life crisis, you know with the boat moving around...

[macojoe]

they were only merc's not like they were good motors!!:love:

[Destroyer]

they were only merc's not like they were good motors!!:love:


True.... still, not as bad as Yamahas though...... :hide:

[RidgeRunner]

"Biotch Slapped by the cold hand of Truth." :clap::beer:

[spareparts]

they probably figured the laser was going to take a while and they didn't want the motors to corrode off the boat before the laser got them

[aussie]

what a waste of tax payers money i hope the guy that thought of it got sacked

[bradford]

If they can shoot your outboards, they can shoot you too. Not worth it for that one under-sized seabass.

[Destroyer]

In 1979 I was a machinery broker buying some equipment from a company called Holophane in NJ that make nothing but special lights. (They made the night lights for the space launches) I watched them shoot a laser into another laser, and then that beam into a third laser, and then that beam into yet another laser... and then that beam destroyed a cinder block in about 1/5 of one second.. just a bang and the block had this huge hole in it. Then the company moved literally overnight to a new location and I never heard from them again... how very strange...:head:

[lumberslinger178]

next they'll have sharks with frickin lasers on the head...:bat:















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