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		| cheshire Arbiter-General (Moderator)
 
  
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				|  Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:47 am    Post subject: "Real" lightsabers at MIT? |   |  
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				| Well, well, well.  Look what they're working on less than a mile from my house! 
 http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/09/26/harvard-mit-scientists-create-real-lightsaber/
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		| jmanski Arbiter-General (Moderator)
 
  
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				|  Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:15 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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		| Volar the Healer Jedi
 
  
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				|  Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:55 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| "...could lead to computers that run 10,000 times faster." 
 Unfortunately, every time computers get faster, the programing gets sloppier...maybe 10,000 times sloppier.
 
 *sigh*
 
 What I could do with a lightsaber...
 
 It sure would make cutting firewood easier.
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		| cheshire Arbiter-General (Moderator)
 
  
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				|  Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 5:08 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Looking at another article on the subject, I think I might know one of the guys in that lab.  I'll have to ask him for the less interesting details. _________________
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