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Is it shooting lasers? I thought laser weapons weren't invented before 1977?

[-] clockworkrat@slrpnk.net 8 points 21 hours ago

Tracer rounds? Not sure they were doing particularly high speed photography with this image.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Tracers that point both ways.

I just DuckDuckGo'ed it. Turns out the laser was actually invented in 1960 it was just considered a useless invention until Star Wars proved it could be uses for weapons.

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago

My birth was a byproduct of that, rumor has it.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago

It’s the heat…

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