Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things blogged this story of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who are using gigawatt, nuclear pumped X-ray lasers designed for the Star Wars Program(TM) to finally achieve that most ancient dream of humankind, finely sliced cheese in the shape of Barney(TM) . (Actually it's a pulsed UV laser that, "produced 10 ns long pulses with an average power of up to 10 W at 355 nm and 3.5 W at 266 nm," but X-Ray lasers sound much cooler, don't you think?)
Posted by bill at January 13, 2004 02:39 PM