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The national ignition facility is just... ridiculous

the most powerful laser in the world and they DON'T try to take over the world with it??

@Felthry It's pretty awesome otherwise, plus it's not even the only time the LLNL had the world's most powerful laser. They had a previous one seen as the laser by in the original Tron. (as opposed to the NIF, which played the warp core in the second Star Trek reboot film).

They've been building the thing for half my lifetime, in my hometown, so I'm a bit of a nerd about it. :-P

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