Posts Tagged lightning

Lightning storm! Our article has gone viral

Posted by jkaneshiro in In the news, Power & Energy on June 29, 2012

This image could only be more popular if we photoshopped a Pikachu in there.

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. — Our article on the laser-induced plasma channel technology has gone viral! We’ve been featured in quite a few media outlets from across the country as well as on international websites.

A slew of technology and science news sites have run the image and have adapted the release for their own.

A few media outlets in the United Kingdom have run it as well.

Here’s one from the Philippines, Russia, and Turkey.

And if I understood Portuguese, Hungarian, German, Lithuanian, and especially the Polish language, I could tell you what they said about the technology.

Oh, and it also appeared here, here, and here.

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Zap! Picatinny engineers set phasers to ‘fry’

Posted by jkaneshiro in In the news on June 21, 2012

Verily, we shot this car with a laser-guided lightning bolt (Mjolnir not required).

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. — Scientists and engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are busy developing a device that will shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target. Soldiers and science fiction fans, you’re welcome.

Click here to read more.

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