Elaad Eliyahu

The reason why we're never gonna have laser weapons

The easiest reason, I want to shout out Venture Brothers.

Have you ever seen Venture Brothers?

No, I thought this was like a laser sponsor of the show.

I thought that- No, no, no.

So there's a show called Venture Bros.

It's kind of old.

Fantastic.

And it's a parody of like Superhero and Johnny Quest.

And there's this really funny scene where the main character is this like government scientist who makes a bunch of crazy stuff, but it's kind of, it's very meant to be like realistic and dysfunctional.

And so he's selling off, he's doing a yard sale.

And, and one of the, uh, what the supervillain has a henchman who's a nerd and he shows up and he sees, he's like, is this what I think it is?

And it's a lightsaber and he presses the button and goes, and then he's like, Oh, and he wants it.

And then he's like, how much for this?

And then the scientist goes, Oh, I don't know.

I made it for the military, but they said we don't sword fight anymore.

which is an amazing point with all the people who think lightsabers would be a great weapon because the military would be like, we don't sword fight anymore.

What do I need this for?

So a lot of people think we'll get to the era of like plasma rifles or laser guns, which is never going to happen because the amount of energy you need to make a directed energy weapon is massive.

And the amount of energy you need to fling a small piece of lead at a person is very, very tiny.