How to build a death ray - material response to laser radiation.

[nobby-w]

Here's a damage calculator that will produce some figures for the size of a hole made by a laser in various materials. The effects for 'Meat' seem a little extreme, but enjoy.

http://panoptesv.com/SciFi/LaserDeathRay/DamageFromLaser.php

 

[kilemall]

Interesting. The beam width at target makes me think of a possible different laser type, the laser shotgun- basically a setting to make the laser go wide and do damage to multiple people and/or increase the probability of a hit, at the expense of high damage and range.


Has to be better then an actual shotgun shotgun, I did work in the Striker thread about reverse engineering the power values of the lasers, using those as inputs I'll have to see what I come up with to fit those parameters.


Thanks!

 

[Ulsyus]

I input some figures which included a 1m beam width at the target. I reckon your multiple-beam idea is the one to go with.