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Chippewa
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Posted - 04/11/2010 :  17:58:38  Show Profile  Visit Chippewa's Homepage Send Chippewa a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Yes. (Sort of.) It's totally Geeky but Cool. But what would you do with it? Use as an astronomy pointer perhaps. But since the "old fashioned" Star Trek phaser looks like a pistol from a distance, better be careful to not play with it willy-nilly just anywhere.

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 04/11/2010 :  18:37:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Cool!

I recall a fellow Star Trek geek (back in the early 1970's) who very seriously explained just how a "real" phaser "worked."

First, the phaser would fire a laser beam to ionize a small portion of the target. Instruments in the phaser would analyze the spectrum of the light produced by the ionization, and would then instantly set the phaser's main laser to produce a second and much more powerful, phased beam in just the correct frequency to disrupt the target.
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Ricky
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Posted - 04/11/2010 :  19:06:36   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
And here I was thinking from the title that you'd at least be able to melt through diburnium-osmium alloy.
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
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The Rat
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Posted - 04/11/2010 :  19:16:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit The Rat's Homepage Send The Rat a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I'll wait until I see Scotty cut through a bulkhead with it. Then I'll believe.
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