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  • #16
    Originally posted by Pekka
    Thanks for making the world safer with a new bomb
    You are welcome.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Pekka

      Thanks for making the world safer with a new bomb
      That's it.
      "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
      "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Serb
        It was Russians who discoverd LASER first.
        Go to Wiki.
        History

        [edit] Foundations

        In 1917, Albert Einstein in his paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung (On the Quantum Theory of Radiation), laid the foundation for the invention of the laser and its predecessor, the maser, in a ground-breaking rederivation of Max Planck's law of radiation based on the concepts of probability coefficients (later to be termed 'Einstein coefficients') for the absorption, spontaneous, and stimulated emission.

        In 1928, Rudolph W. Landenburg confirmed the existence of stimulated emission and negative absorption.[3]

        In 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant (USSR) predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify "short" waves.[4]

        In 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and made the first demonstration of stimulated emission.[5]

        In 1950, Alfred Kastler (Nobel Prize for Physics 1966) proposed the method of optical pumping, which was experimentally confirmed by Brossel, Kastler and Winter two years later.[6]


        The first working laser was demonstrated in May 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.

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        • #19
          Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.



          From Britannica:


          Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov

          Soviet physicist who, with Nikolay G. Basov and Charles H. Townes, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964 for fundamental research in quantum electronics that led to the development of the maser and laser.


          Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov was a Soviet physicist who, with Nikolay G. Basov and Charles H. Townes, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964 for fundamental research in quantum electronics that led to the development of the maser and laser. Prokhorov’s father was involved in revolutionary


          Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov

          Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, and a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964, with Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov of the Soviet Union and Charles H. Townes of the United States, for research leading to the development of both the maser and the laser.


          Nikolay Basov was a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, and a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964, with Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov of the Soviet Union and Charles H. Townes of the United States, for research leading to the development of both the maser


          Now from your Wiki article:

          In 1953, Charles H. Townes and graduate students James P. Gordon and Herbert J. Zeiger produced the first microwave amplifier, a device operating on similar principles to the laser, but amplifying microwave rather than infrared or visible radiation. Townes's maser was incapable of continuous output. Nikolay Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov of the Soviet Union worked independently on the quantum oscillator and solved the problem of continuous output systems by using more than two energy levels and produced the first maser. These systems could release stimulated emission without falling to the ground state, thus maintaining a population inversion. In 1955 Prokhorov and Basov suggested an optical pumping of multilevel system as a method for obtaining the population inversion, which later became one of the main methods of laser pumping.

          Townes, Basov, and Prokhorov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 "For fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle".
          Last edited by Serb; September 11, 2007, 19:04.

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          • #20
            Now back to the topic:

            KABOOM!!!
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            • #21
              Originally posted by Kuciwalker
              Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added.


              Wrong translation.
              He said it doesn't contaminate the enviroment (nuclear pollution).
              However after explosion the enviroment looks like a Moon surface (no kidding).

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              • #22
                Too bad American planes would shoot the Russki plane down before it has a chance to drop it
                Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                • #23
                  In your dreams!
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Serb
                    In your dreams!
                    9 mediocre jets vs. Several hundred top of the line ones?
                    Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                    • #25

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                      • #26
                        A bit more detailed article about the bomb:

                        http://fe26.news.sp1.yahoo.com/s/nm/...ssia_bomb_dc_3;_ylt=AsxB0ee_hmic8DxwOcaqA3tbbBAF

                        Still can't find video.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Serb

                          Still can't find video.
                          James Cameron hasn't made that movie yet.
                          "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                          "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                          • #28
                            44 kilotons? Or 44 tons? There's a difference.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Wezil


                              James Cameron hasn't made that movie yet.
                              I saw the test at Russian news.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Sarxis
                                44 kilotons? Or 44 tons? There's a difference.
                                Ooops.
                                Last edited by Serb; September 12, 2007, 08:56.

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