[PGR88]

A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space...

Don't play with it, or you'll put your eye out.

[duckman]

We’re doomed!

[WayneS]

How is Space supposed to keep its living room carpet clean if we tear apart its vacuum?

[Ken522]

... and what if they don’t find anything? All that money will have been wasted; money that could have been used to feed starving children in Japan!

[PanzerKardinal]

[Da Coyote]

I’m stealing it from a post over the weekend on the same subject, but cannot resist: What a wonderful cat toy!

[dfwgator]

[Sax]

Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility

Is this different than listening to Electric Light Orchestra while ultra high in a field? Or is this just code, because "the man" is always listening?

[DBrow]

E. E. “Doc” smith would be proud.

Ravening gouts of raw energy ripping the fabric of space-time to release mysterious virtual particles...

[MichaelP]

So it opens a wormhole and sucks all those scientists into another part of the galaxy...

[Argus]

What could possibly go wrong?

[mamelukesabre]

okey dokey

how do they expect to get it to space? I hope they aren’t really planing on lighting it off from ground level. Earth’s atmosphere will eat up so much of the energy there may not be much left of the beam by the time it reaches space.

[diverteach]

“Capable of producing a beam of light so intense that it would be equivalent to the power received by the Earth from the sun focused onto a speck smaller than a tip of a pin”

Guess these guys never head of a magnifying glass.

[GraceG]

I highly doubt that this will tear a hole in space. Space can withstand a supernova which has GOT to put out more energy near the explosion point per cubic pico-meter than this so called “space riping” laser.

Or I am wrong and BOOM goodby universe, it could do something like lower the false vaccum point of the universe causing an explosion moving at the speed of light that will wipe out the universe.

[dartuser]

Contrary to popular belief, a vacuum is not devoid of material but in fact fizzles with tiny mysterious particles that pop in and out of existence, but at speeds so fast that no one has been able to prove they exist.

You have to love those scientific theories that predict you won't find any evidence to support them.

[Sgt_Schultze]

In conclusion:
Prepare to tear apart the fabric of space - not worried.
Fart too many times - the Earth is doomed.

[Moltke]

Amazing...what passes for a ‘science correspondent’ these days, that is.

[ontap]

As far as tearing a hole in the fabric of space ...this thing is to space as a flea is to an elephants ass!!! Only more so!!

[NativeSon]

Ok but when this is done can we please work on the Lightsaber?!

I've been waiting for over three decades now...

[RinaseaofDs]

Also great for playing with cats, giving powerpoint presentations, and annoying your English teacher.

I secretly hope they use it to blast ET back into their own dimension. They ran out of lube during the last anal probe, and if it takes me the rest of my life, I’ll see those Tall Greys fry.