15 May 1998 - ABL: laser power...

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1998 : 15 May 1998
< yesterday -- tomorrow >

The U.S. Air Force's Airborne Laser program, or ABL for short, is a project to put a whopping big laser gun on a 747 and use it to zap the other guy's rocketing Scuds from a hundred miles away. We're talking major wattage here; safety goggles are not going to help you.

If it sounds silly when I say it, that's only because I don't have millions of dollars dedicated to making it happen.

give me a clue so sweet and true


the Daily Whale || copyright 1998, 2003 Jay J.P. Scott <jay@satirist.org>