star wars on earth!

[deadhanddan]

uber beam

checked out this story on yahoo , first ever of its kind anywhere. first the atom smasher in europe now this , 2009 turning out sum impressive new techs

[LaZy]

looks impressive, 2 bad Arny gets 2 comment on it though.....makes the whole thing a little bit 2 unbelievable imo.

Im glad 2 say that one of the members of the elaborate team that 1st started working with Laser was my physics teacher. He himself said "...wow we´ve just invented a little red light" and dismissed the entire thing. I was 7 and can vividly remember him saying how much he regreted leaving that team soon after

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[Sporting_Lisbon]

Whoa, pretty cool

[GeneralMichael]

Hey we may one day have laser guns like in star wars and star trek. Just remember the first computer took up a whole entire room and could do barely anything, now we have computers that can do incredible things compared to the first one and are over 100 times smaller than the original one.

[deadhanddan]

[quote=""GeneralMichael""]Hey we may one day have laser guns like in star wars and star trek. Just remember the first computer took up a whole entire room and could do barely anything, now we have computers that can do incredible things compared to the first one and are over 100 times smaller than the original one.[/quote]

this paragraph was taken from Wikipedia on the the very first ''computing'' machine invented:


'' Konrad Zuse's Z3 was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine; whose attributes, with the addition of conditional branching, have often been the ones used as criteria in defining a computer. The Z3 was built with 2,000 relays. It had a clock frequency of ~5–10 Hz, and a word length of 22 bits.[1] Calculations on the computer were performed in full binary floating point arithmetic. Z3 read programs off a punched film. The machine was completed in 1941 ''


check these specs with your own PC stats for a good laugh

[LaZy]

wow 5-10Hz, I guess Robot Enterlagment are still using that same racoon 2 power their servers

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[deadhanddan]

HAHAHA robot enterlagment thats a good 1 lazy i will have to remember that

here is a pic of the first computer mentioned above

the Z3