Annie Jacobsen
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
I think that's a good instinct of ours.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
And so any time I have been at the Pentagon or wherever asking about directed energy weapons, it's really a –
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
And so to find out more about that, I tracked down.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
This was when I was reporting the Pentagon's brain a decade ago.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
I thought to myself, OK, well, if these guys won't talk to me, I'll find out who invented the laser, see if he will.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
Go to the smartest guy in the room.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
So Charles Townes, who won the Nobel Prize for inventing the laser, I called him up.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
This was in 2014, I believe.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
There wasn't lasers before 2014?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
That's when I interviewed him.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
He invented the laser in – I think he won the Nobel Prize in 61 or 62.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2174 - Annie Jacobsen
And he was 99 years old when I interviewed him, still keeping office hours at Berkeley.