Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for June 12, 2016

Transcript:

In movies: The railgun to space will never work! There's too much air drag! What if we used a laser to rarefy a tube of air?! Two hours later: In reality: What if we used a laser to rarefy a tube of air? Twenty years later: And now we know exactly why that won't work.