Comment Re:Umm... (Score 1) 590
That was played out in the TV series The Almighty Johnsons
shot with 30 pulses over a 10-second period by Curiosity's laser today in order to determine what elements it was made of
or as H.G. Wells put it,
...the Martians rattle for a time and then become still. The giant saved Woking station and its cluster of houses until the last; then in a moment the Heat-Ray was brought to bear, and the town became a heap of fiery ruins. Then the Thing shut off the Heat-Ray, and turning its back...
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.