(08-18-2023, 02:37 PM)Snarl Wrote:(08-18-2023, 01:59 PM)727Sky Wrote: Yep I have heard that story a couple of times these last few months. Weird story especially if completely true.
A plumber ... a firefighter: I just don't know.
Between '86 and '90, I was exposed to some pretty high level sciency weapons stuff under the SDI. I was (as he said) fully read-on. I was just a security guy, but my key access was the same. It opened every door in every facility I traveled to. That, in and of itself, would freak people the fuck out.
What freaked me out were two accidents. The first one I saw the aftermath. They had something like a laser beam. It punched a hole. From what I was able to see ... the hole didn't end. What boggled the mind was that whatever punched the hole left no debris behind.
The other thing that surprised me about that job was 'how incredibly fast' things could happen. That laser beam thingy completely disappeared from one day to the next. And, I mean everything. I also saw an entire building get stood up over a four-day weekend. It went up so fast no one even questioned whether they'd ever seen it before. It was like they self-believed they'd never just paid it any mind in the past. That one event made me really start paying attention to my own personal observations of things.
Pretty cool about that laser. But you said "something like a laser beam." So you only saw the aftermath, and not the apparatus itself? Bummer. And this was the late 80s? And yet they said they don't have the capability to strap those things to fighter jets yet. Maybe that is the case. How much power can you realistically get from something small enough to be on a jet? Warships, on the other hand...or a giant jet, like a C130 maybe.