I love Science Fiction. Who doesn’t, right? So, like many, many other people out there, I would love to have a raygun or a personal space ship or a virtual environment that I can step in to and experience amazing things. Now, I realize that these things are entirely fictional and stand no chance of being made available to the public, or being developed at all.
That’s the bad news.
I know, the government having no desire to make moving at the speed of sound and instantly vaporizing mountains is a bummer, but some good has come from the pages of comic books and old novels with unevenly cut pages.
For instance, did you know radar was actually invented while trying to create rayguns before World War II?
Boring. I know.
Experiments into making lasers into high powered weapons has made some headway though. Science and engineering have figured out how to destroy objects with lasers and blind people with them (not a joke, there is actually a UN protocol on blinding combatants with lasers), but the major issue out there is making a portable power source capable of deploying the lethal beam.
So if there are any of you junior scientists out there, working on lasers won’t give us rayguns any fasts. What we really need you to be developing tiny batteries that contain the force of a thousand white hot suns.
©2013 DEDWIN HEDON
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