Kill Watt
Is it possible for a laser beam to kill someone?
Or is this just sci-fi nonsense? Are there any existing high powered lasers, such as industrial CO2 lasers in the kw range, that could drill holes in or slice up a hapless victim (this assumes the person would be unable to get out of the way of the beam, tied down kinda like 007 in the old James Bond movie "Goldfinger")? Would it cut arms and legs off like the lightsabers in "Starwars"?
In a laser processing shop where I worked a man had a fingertip completely vaporized by a 5kw laser, and another worker got a 300 watt YAG beam all the way thru the hand, so it would seem plausible.....(these were focused beams; unfocused beams just burned people)
What about weapons-grade lasers powered in the 100+ kw range? What would a beam from one of those do to someone misfortunate enough to be in the path of a focused beam?
if it can burn through the hand, it can burn through the chest, the only question is how long will it take.
FYI, Military are working on putting a laser into Boeing 747 to shoot down ICBM's from tens of miles away. I am pretty sure this would fry a human in no time. The only catch is that it takes a Boeing 747 to carry that baby.
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