{"id":3031,"date":"2012-03-08T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2012-03-08T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:25:26","slug":"why-dont-we-have-laser-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-dont-we-have-laser-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t We Have Laser Guns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030612_0338_WhyDontWeHa1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Laser guns have long been a staple of science-fiction. Why then don&#8217;t we have any yet? Jeff Hecht answered the question:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lasers aren&#8217;t energy efficient. They work by converting other forms of energy into light, but a lot of energy is lost as heat in the process.\n<\/li>\n<li>The only way for a laser to kill is through heat. But the human body is mostly made up of water, and it requires a lot of energy to heat water up. Thus a laser gun would require a prohibitive amount of power.\n<\/li>\n<li>The one thing lasers can do well is burn out a person&#8217;s retinas. However staring at the sun has the same effect, and anyway the Geneva conventions don&#8217;t allow for such tactics.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about how lasers can be used to take out non-human targets, as well as equally heinous alternatives for aspiring evil overlords, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/nonfiction\/future-weapons\/\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/nonfiction\/future-weapons\/\">Light Speed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser guns have long been a staple of science-fiction. Why then don&#8217;t we have any yet? Jeff Hecht answered the question: Lasers aren&#8217;t energy efficient. They work by converting other forms of energy into light, but a lot of energy is lost as heat in the process. The only way for a laser to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030612_0338_WhyDontWeHa1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}