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Comments on: Invisible airborne laser also 'deniable'

Boeing tests Advanced Tactical Laser, boasts of pinpoint accuracy.

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by pjhenry1216 August 18, 2008 8:50 AM PDT
This reminds me of the movie "Real Genius" with Val Kilmer. Now all we need to do is get a really big pan of popcorn kernels and it'll be spot on.

In all seriousness though, this is a powerful weapon. In the movie, a weapon like this was being developed for long-range assassination missions. If its as accurate as they claim, this weapon could serve the same function. At least they can't get this into a satellite or capable of working at longer ranges or else it'd be really worrisome with what it could do.
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by Viv Collins August 18, 2008 9:07 AM PDT
Plausible deniability but a dead give away will be the odd but compelling statistical rise in unexplained cases of spontaneous human combustion
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by aka_tripleB August 18, 2008 2:59 PM PDT
I think cases of spontaneous human combustion are classified as unexplained. That's kind of the definition of "spontaneous."

I think the bigger give away is the low flying jet that flies by every time there is a death.
by Seaspray0 August 18, 2008 10:54 AM PDT
Rumor has it, they successfully tested the laser on a building owned by apple just recently.
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by cabowabo August 29, 2008 6:34 AM PDT
Now That's Funny!
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