Friday, July 06, 2018

Off Beam

China’s New Hand-Held Laser Rifle: Less Lethal or Less Believable? [More]
So this was "fake news"?

Some day.

In a time not that long ago, it would have required a room's worth of equipment to be capable of a fraction of the computing power contained in those phones we casually slip in our pockets. Yeah, I know, that's an apples-and-oranges analogy, but it's less flawed than some blowhard posing like he knows what the limits are on future possibilities.

The real concern is if such a development will warn:
LAW ENFORCEMENT/GOVERNMENT USE ONLY
[Via Florida Guy]  

1 comment:

Mack said...

You do realize no outside of Star Fleet carried a phaser, don't you?