13th December 2003, 9:55 PM
I love that site. Learned about it at Snopes.com. Yes, a huge beef about ALL lasers shown in EVERY movie EVER made is that they are ALWAYS shot out as visible even with no dust in the air to deflect photons towards one's eyes! One personal beef is the one time they DO have this bit of thing correct is in a bad bit of engineering, like when someone blows powder across a security laser to expose it. Why would anyone make a security laser in the VISIBLE light spectrum? An infrared beam would never be exposed like that, because it can't be seen! Of course, sometimes it's actually supposed to BE infrared, and they say so, and then they use the same trick and there's visible light! Annoying!
Also, that stupid ship would SO have melted! The only thing that can withstand that magma is dolamite! The solid rock that won't cop out when there's heat all about!
Also, that stupid ship would SO have melted! The only thing that can withstand that magma is dolamite! The solid rock that won't cop out when there's heat all about!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)