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Laser Beams Deflected Off of Nothing but Air for First Time Ever in Breakthrough Patent Pending Process - The Debrief::An international team of scientists report that they have successfully used acoustics to deflect laser beams in an engineering first.

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[-] tacostrange@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago
[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yelling lightsabers at that loudness. All the better imho.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, if sound travelled through space, the sun would be as loud as a jackhammer everywhere on earth. Second fun fact, due to the fact that we evolved on earth you wouldve evolved to not be able to hear that frequency.

[-] evranch@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Luke!

WHAT?

LUKE! I AM YOUR...

WHAAAT? TURN YOUR LIGHTSABER OFF IF YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY

HELL NO YOU TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTSABER BOY

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Holograms or maybe molecular scale tractor beams?

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