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lederhosen ([personal profile] lederhosen) wrote2007-08-16 03:26 am
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True enough

Correction to a SMH article about lasers being used to dazzle football players and airline pilots (quoting from memory):

"The article referred to ten-megawatt lasers when it should have referred to ten-milliwatt lasers. The effect of a ten-megawatt laser on the victim would be spectacular."
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[identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. It had been a while since I had last had coffee in my nose.

That was partly because it had been a while since I had brewed coffee in the lab (I was stuck on tea for the past few weeks), but partly because, well, you know.

("Sir! The entire eastern Sydney powergrid *blink*ed again!"
"Damn, there's another game in the Stadium, isn't there. The laser itself is bad enough, but the bloody cooling system!")

[identity profile] scascot.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The effect of a ten-megawatt laser on the victim would be spectacular.

<snork> <choke> <sputter> <cough>

<wipe> <wipe> <wipe>

Yeah...to say the least.

("Dammit! That's the third player to be vaporized today!" "I hate playing 'away' games...")

[identity profile] culfinriel.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee!

[identity profile] drzero.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Hats off to the SMH for being so self-effacingly droll about their corrections. Reminds me of the time a paper (name escapes me currently, sorry) apologised for: "Referring to Inspector Johnston of being a defective in the police force. Of course, we meant he was a detective in the police farce."

[identity profile] fluffy-cloud.livejournal.com 2007-08-17 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, I needed to laugh.
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