From the video I just watched, there's some kind of lens in front of the laser beam that disperses it into a wider light beam. The laser should only be thought of as a bulb, then.

If only all of congress was leaving at the end of their term. Something other than naming buildings might actually get done.

Assateague. No seriously, that's the name of it. It's a public beach directly east of Wallops. Probably costs a few dollars to get in. Or you can go to the Wallops Visitors Center. It's across the road from the facility and has a viewing area on the roof. It's free.

Therefore aliens

My vision will be augmented.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s06e09-free-hat

This reminds me of one program I was using that abused mouse hooks to see if the user was idle. It would cause certain programs to spike when moving the mouse (probably processes with a lot of handles receiving mouse messages). Wasn't all that noticeable until the framerate dropped substantially in games, where one uses the mouse a lot. Once I figured it out, I stopped using that program needless to say.