We Live In Strange Times

I didn't think I'd live long enough to see the first commercially available laser pistol reach the American market:

When used with a simple lens this laser can cut through a rock. When used with a lens system, the air will actually explode at the focus point.

The Unwanted Blog has a great take on it:

If an individual shot is powerful enough to take out a bird or small critter… holy crap. Varmint hunting has just gone to a whole new level. No windage, no gravity drop, no muzzle flash, and probably pretty quiet operation. Instead of getting one shot and then watching all the ducks fly off except the one you shot… now you get to plink away for minutes on end, with the ducks simply flopping over dead with a small smoking hole in their noggins.

Is this a great honkin' country or what? (No red-shirts, please.)
H/T to Bobbi X and the Unwanted Blog.