(08-18-2023, 02:37 PM)Snarl Wrote: 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.
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Those things work by vaporizing everything in the way of their path. No debris is "left behind" visibly, because it has been converted to vapor. Now the scary part is, that vaporized stuff, as vapor, is distributed through all the ambient air in the vicinity. Just imagine what you were breathing....
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