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>>>>Along the lines of this thread.
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>>>>In one Aurthur C. Clarks books, he once wrote something along the lines of...
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>>>>First man: "Did you see that laser?" As he look out the porthole of the spaceship.
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>>>>Second man sitting: "That is rubbish. You can't see lasers in space. That only occurs in bad SF books."
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>>>I think Dragan mentioned that in a previous discussion ?
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>>I seem to recall Dragan was talking about sound - the great explosions we hear in all the SF movies.
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>No, I think that was I (but he may have mentioned it another time). Anyway, someone mentioned the lasers in space and, I think, I went on to 2001 and the fact that Clarke didn't have the searchlight beams visible on the Moon

I thought that was Chairface Chippendale who attempt to write his name on the face of the moon with a powerful laser. But the Tick got before he finished.

http://www.cs.rose-hulman.edu/~stinerkt/tickdocs/as.html