A new laser, claimed to have been fired within a laboratory in Japan, is the most powerful on Earth.

The laser is situated in Osaka University and is called the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments or LFEX. The mighty megalaser is roughly 100 meters (300 feet) long.

The laser emits a staggering amount of energy: two petawatts or two quadrillion watts, which is equivalent to nearly 1,000 times the total of the world's electricity consumption ever. The energy of the laser beam is so vast that the laser has entered the record books as the most powerful laser ever fired, according to the researchers. The second most powerful, the Texas Petawatt Laser, emits only half the amount of power of the LFEX laser.

Japan fires most power laser

we'll have that death star beam soon enough!

I'd love too see what the thing looks like in person, that'd be something else.

Ought to have put that large and well written quote in quotation marks...

I love how as soon as they accomplished that they're like "now we're aiming for ten petawatts"

Paraphrased

Curious how highly powered that is but the article says because it uses the energy for like a picosecond it only actually only uses the equivalent of the energy required to run a microwave for a few seconds.

That's... actually kind of scary.

Military technology can definitely resemble science fiction within the next few centuries.

At 7/30/15 09:08 PM, AutumnalEquinox wrote: I'd love too see what the thing looks like in person, that'd be something else.

well four qauadrillion watts could probably vaporize.

At 7/30/15 09:11 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 7/30/15 09:08 PM, AutumnalEquinox wrote: I'd love too see what the thing looks like in person, that'd be something else.

well four qauadrillion watts could probably vaporize.

Yea it could. It'd still be cool to see for a few seconds haha.

At 7/30/15 09:13 PM, AutumnalEquinox wrote:

At 7/30/15 09:11 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 7/30/15 09:08 PM, AutumnalEquinox wrote: I'd love too see what the thing looks like in person, that'd be something else.

well four qauadrillion watts could probably vaporize.

Yea it could. It'd still be cool to see for a few seconds haha.

They wouldn't be able to run it for that long. It's only designed for short bursts.

We don't have anything that can deliver that much power to it.

Now we just have to wait a couple of decades to play some badass Gundam battles.

I call God Gundam!

But seriously, that's some interesting news.

At 7/30/15 09:25 PM, Vinnyy wrote: The 21st century will probably be filled with incredible inventions and discoveries. It'll be like science fiction becoming reality. Everything that we're seeing now is only just the beginning. Just imagine what the 22nd century will hold. I envy our great grandchildren.

I know right? like cybernetics and shit. super jealous, what I really want them to do next is cryogenics so we can freeze ourselves for years on end not aging while the world progresses and moves on. I would totally sign up for that!

Could it be adapted to fit onto shark's heads?

At 7/30/15 09:34 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: Could it be adapted to fit onto shark's heads?

FUCK YES!

At 7/30/15 09:35 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 7/30/15 09:34 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: Could it be adapted to fit onto shark's heads?

FUCK YES!

MWAHAHAHA!

No caps.

At 7/30/15 09:39 PM, Vinnyy wrote: The thing that I want to see the most is space exploration. It's really sad that we'll be gone by the time the real age of discovery begins. We won't live to see any of it. We were born too soon.

we could totally see space exploration and colonization if the next be breakthrough is cryogenic freezing.

At 7/30/15 09:40 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: MWAHAHAHA!

No caps.

YES!

If they could make a smaller version, and put it in guns, we'd be one step closer to Star Wars!

At 7/30/15 09:35 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 7/30/15 09:34 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: Could it be adapted to fit onto shark's heads?

FUCK YES!

Dude...your level icon...

I like to think that thins is what the testing looked like.

At 7/31/15 12:52 AM, NEOSLAYRE wrote: I like to think that thins is what the testing looked like.

Nevermind the gif didn't work.

Japan might test drive that laser on one of its neighboring countries....

Are Tesla's dreams coming true?

At 7/30/15 09:35 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 7/30/15 09:34 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: Could it be adapted to fit onto shark's heads?

FUCK YES!

hey fuck you guys, I'm not wearing that shit.

At 7/31/15 08:58 AM, AzuMulu wrote: It only lasted 1 trillionth of a second tho

but it was done thats the thing!

Now we must harness the power of the sun!

They gonna rig it to their mecha for the US v Japan mecha battle.

At 7/31/15 01:32 PM, YomToxic wrote: They gonna rig it to their mecha for the US v Japan mecha battle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLP1_jwT9_M

At 7/31/15 10:29 AM, MuramasasEdge wrote: Now we must harness the power of the sun!

I wonder if we set up a really big magnifying glass, we could make a reactor from that. Like, a super huge magnifying glass powered power plant. heh. focus the beam, to create a heat spot, which then creates power. MAGIC.

Ok, but its not a valid reason to bring any of their nuke plants back online. Sorry