02-12-2017, 09:32 AM
Your understanding of lasers is not very good.
gypsy, let me add to that observation above. I worked a few feet away from the Star Wars laser (when powered down) on Maui while it was in it's test phase during the '90's. Shockingly I have lived to tell you the tale of it's operation:
1) It did not draw an enormous amount of electricity.
2) The laser did not attract aliens.
3) It was, in fact, used by the military at a dedicated Air Force observatory. Although in a high security area, it was not by any means secret. Everybody on Maui knew about it at the time, not just a few imaginative zealots.
4) Since the Air Force already has an observatory in Hawaii they don't need a second one a few hundred miles away on the Big Island.
5) The Star Wars laser was different in application and power from the lasers at astronomical observatories. One was a weapon.
No child will ever again doubt they could grow up and someday become president of the United States
gypsy, let me add to that observation above. I worked a few feet away from the Star Wars laser (when powered down) on Maui while it was in it's test phase during the '90's. Shockingly I have lived to tell you the tale of it's operation:
1) It did not draw an enormous amount of electricity.
2) The laser did not attract aliens.
3) It was, in fact, used by the military at a dedicated Air Force observatory. Although in a high security area, it was not by any means secret. Everybody on Maui knew about it at the time, not just a few imaginative zealots.
4) Since the Air Force already has an observatory in Hawaii they don't need a second one a few hundred miles away on the Big Island.
5) The Star Wars laser was different in application and power from the lasers at astronomical observatories. One was a weapon.
No child will ever again doubt they could grow up and someday become president of the United States
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”