A flawed example as your eye recieves the light, at a wide angel, where the GIANT LASER projects a focused beam. A better example may be to "look" at it through a plastic drinking straw. A tad more difficult.Adex_Xeda wrote:Its much easier to watch a bird with your eyeball than it is to shoot a bullet at it.
That's the beauty of the laser concept. You don't have to lead your target. "Look" directly at it and squeeze off an energy burst.
I think the technology has potential in the sense that at least to me seems simpler than missile based anti-missile tech.
However, all of this seems similar to the old nuclear readiness excercises they had schoolkids do. In case of a nuclear strike get under your desk heh. Everyone in the know knew it was a pointless excercise but it gave comfort to the populace.
You have people crossing your border with Mexico every day, do you think it would be much harder to get a nuclear\chemical\biological weapon past your borders? Once past your borders the GIANT LASER ain't gonna help much.