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Anyone else chuckle at the term "laser-induced mortality"?
by tda 6y ago
Anyone else chuckle at the term "laser-induced mortality"?
- dylan604 6y agoI wonder how the SDI guys used to refer to targets getting taken out by lasers. Oh wait, they didn't have to worry about it as it never worked!
- narrator 6y agoDefense Secretary Espers gave a speech a few weeks ago where he said China and Russia had directed energy weapons on satellites. This was largely ignored with all the other shit going on.
- dylan604 6y agoSatellites are easy. They're just sitting ducks. ICBM re-entry vehicles are much tougher.
- yencabulator 6y agoAnd more likely to have an ablative heat shield on the side pointing at you. Adding a little heat to a thing already being heated a lot by the atmosphere isn't as effective as blinding a spy telescope aimed at you.
- Camillo 6y agoGood to hear America has espers, though. As shown in Akira, espers beat directed energy weapons on satellites.
- Nextgrid 6y agoLaser-induced rapid scheduled disassembly.
- Cerium 6y agoAh, as in missile defense systems. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
- _Microft 6y agoNot really. It sounds like Newspeak.
- mhb 6y agoThat or humor.
- minitoar 6y agoI wonder how much discussion it took to settle on that phrasing. Or maybe there is precedent?
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoI had a big one at reading one phrase, "lithic braking"
- gorgoiler 6y agoLithobraking, I think? Cf aerobeaking :)
- chrisseaton 6y agoIt means killing them using lasers.
- _Microft 6y agoYou call it what it is and people do not like it. Maybe my opinion that the title is using "Newspeak" was not that wrong after all.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoLaser-induced unscheduled disassembly would be how the mosquitoes describe it. I wonder if it is just heat/denaturing of mosquito polypeptides, or if electrical signals in their brian fry from too much instantaneous power.
- analog31 6y agoThey might have just been having fun with the title.
- chrismorgan 6y agoI love reading interesting verbose paper titles. I’ve also thought it might be fun if they added subtitles: > Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight > Or, zapping mozzies WITH LASERZ!