“This is an important data point, but I still want the Megawatt death ray.”

Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, US Navy - after firing a 15-kilowatt laser beam and igniting the motors of an inflatable motorboat. FYI, a megawatt class laser will cut through 2000 feet of steel per second, and is expected to be complete by the 2020s.

Video: Navy Laser Sets Ship on Fire | Danger Room | Wired.com

She knew the way
Two people must come upon such an understanding
Together of course but separately
As the moon & the wave remain individually one.

—David St. John, closing lines to “Wavelength” in Study for the World’s Body: New and Selected Poems (HarperPerennial, 1994)

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