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Sadge (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I know he'll prove those guys wrong some day

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Sounds like it was a 2 petawatt pulsed laser, with picosecond pulses, so 2kJ/pulse. Staggering amount of power and energy for a pulsed laser!

Note that it's not CW, so the average power will be much, much, much less than the pulsed power. Too lazy to find the rep rate to see average power.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)
  • Laser is fired:
  • Laser is fired in Japan: 😯😯😯😯😯😯
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago

Supervillain origin story if I've ever heard one

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

why are they so mean what did he do

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He wasn't focused

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

poor guy how will he feed his children now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

His son will be lighter next year

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It’ll be OK, look on the bright side!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh, so that's its supervillain moto!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

(Phew, missing punchline fixed :) )

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

yea at least he wont have to pay taxes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

He wasn't very bright

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Lazing around

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

well that's not acceptable in this economy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

The justification given was incoherent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Automation took it's job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

this is so sad i will make a post on [email protected] raising awareness

https://lemmy.world/post/25273084 i hope we can get his job back

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago

Lost it's job to AI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

The amount of cannons that have had to get in the unemployment line is stratospheric.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Gets angry and lies himself on top of a high powered sniper rifle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

That's a pretty niche role, a position as part of the laser grid at a museum is much more steady

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

just look at the guy, all he wanted to do was an honest days lazing for an honest days pay, was that too much to ask