Set phasers to stun!!

[agallag]

The blue lines are the edges of the plasma conduit, not light.

Anyway, I coudn't draw the second beam in without going 3D. It's just directly on top of (or underneath I guess) the one that you can see there. That's a top down view.

At least I've proven one thing. That I really suck at drawing

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Andrew
Carpe Cerevisi

[agallag]

Also, not to be picky, but what you said exactly was "requires two lasers to create the potential needed to ionize the air". They don't need two lasers to cause the ionization. They just need two to make a complete circuit for the electricity to run through. If all they needed was a plasma conduit, one laser would do just fine.

Good point about the mirror melting though.

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Andrew
Carpe Cerevisi

[SteveC]

...Guess what the worst part is?... No evidence!...

Wouldn't it burn?

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Paddy]

Are you volunteering to find out?

[Himself]

Yet another question, how much plasma "atmosphere" for lack of a better word surrounds each lazer beam? Is it on the atom level or is it actually large enough to bleed into each other?

[Bohrn]

Clan ER Large Lazer...

[Greebe]

Andrew, you are correct about the beams not pinching. They do make ultraviolet enhanced first surface mirrors that at the wavelengths they are talking about are >98% effecient.

Anyway it doesn't take power to ionize atmopheric gasses in the UV region and heat/thermal energy is not what would stop an attacker or vehicle, the voltage potential is. Since this would normally be at a greater area then if in contact with a taser of stun gun, there wouldn't be any burns either... And I can attest to nonburning after being zapped by high tension power in excess of 100kv (one of the insulators came loose in an experimental plasma HF speaker driver I built some years back)

YES one can see lightning with your eyes closed! Oy

[ayoub_ibrahim]

that's a shocking disclosure Greebe!!