Once I can hold the laser still enough, I brace myself.
He looks out the window at the ant-like people all those floors below, oblivious to the woman pointing a high powered laser rifle straight at him from the next block along, and raises his glass.
With the midday sun shining straight down on me, the laser needs all the cooling it can get, and the fan sounds like someone's standing next to me, drying her hair.
To--" Despite giving my new business partner the order to fire, the laser burst still somehow makes me jump.
They've got 'em bent, and if any one or two of 'em should happen to get punctured, the other two would move the mirror complete out of the laser beam focus.
The only place they could safely shoot us would be the passenger spokes, and that would take some pretty fine target shooting--with only one laser bank.
He handed the theodolite telescope and the laser milling-head to Paul.
In the meantime, no function could be initiated within the laser system by anyone other than the Security control officer at Thule Base on Earth.
Schmidt will key in the number one laser bank only.
Meantime, today's peacetime experiment would bring forcibly to the attention of Earth both the power for good and the power for destruction of the laser which he commanded.
But not command of the laser project, Steve told himself.
Casually, without even looking at the Security man, he had somehow centered the laser directly on him.
The whines and hums of laser printers and the beep of computers made conversation all but impossible.
The ones you play back using some kind of laser gizmo?
Undoubtedly you can punch holes in them with laser guns.
The African root furnishing laser was exterminated by the demand for it.
Target shooting, or, more recently, Nintendo-type aiming with laser beams, is at the other end of the gamut.
New practical experiences within the scale of humankind that result in the need for alternatives to language confirm that the focus cannot be on television and computer screens, nor on advertisement, electronic photography, and laser discs.
For yhow, Schir, will I blithly mak 'This travell, gif God will me gif 'Laser and space so lange till liff.
Once satisfied that a gun emplacement was not booby-trapped, Kumiko inserted random realignment parameters into laser blocks, twirled tracking sequencers into disarray, and switched about chips and connectors.
Rings of laser arrays along the edge of the Extractor's hopper flashed alive and focused their beams on a large, slowly tumbling planetoid hundreds of kilometers across its minor dimension.
Keeper's message simultaneously loaded into the recon-patroller's computer as authenticator for the mission and demolition and laser gun settings.
It specializes in energy weapons, the development of one of which, the lightsaber, required controlled-length laser beams, which has had considerable effect on many fields of Imperial technology.
One Space Command laserpierced the Silver Cloud-a narrow but tight beam.
All too soon, he switched off the laser and turned the room lights back on.
The fierce glare of destructive laserstrikes came through the quartz window for nearly a minute, and the prisoners knew that the living quarters of Z25 were being systematically destroyed.
Their laser cannons were rapidly destroying the outlying parts of the mining base.
As soon as the enormous airlock became visible down the shaft, he fired a laser cannon at it.
Zip and Mark lifted their laser pistols and fired simultaneously.
A laser cannon locked onto one freighter and ripped open its hull.
Joe looked out the window again and saw that laser cannons had begun to destroy the ships.
Their laser beams are immensely powerful, and they're operating at full capacity," observed Zip, grimly.
He groaned, and the laser pistol he had been drawing was caught behind the table.
When he set the laserfor yellow light, there was a change in the surface of the ship.
They couldn't take their eyes off the resplendent glory of the sphere under the laser light.
As he moved the laser beam slowly around the globe, the interior lights changed-first one, then another "flaw" taking the light and surging into radiance.
Laser light has only one wavelength, so it can't be refracting in there.
Looks like some sort of laser here," said Joe, picking up an object that resembled a flashlight.
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We are ready to switch on the laser field, Doktor Androv.
These data were then enhanced through holography, which used thelaser light to create colored 3-D representations of the flow around the model.
The airflow around the model continued to accelerate, while laser holograms of its complex aerodynamics were now being converted by the computer into multi-colored graphic art.
Daedalus's infrared laser scanners were still tracking the wing of MiG interceptors, now at twenty-two thousand feet and closing.
The laser data show that the supersonic wave drag peaks at Mach 3.
Its laser probes shone thin slices of coherent light through the swirling air currents, revealing complexities otherwise hidden amid whorls of turbulence.
But until you get good, wear your cyberbasics and never leave home without your laser pointer.
We don't know why all cyberpunks need a laser pointer, but it's mandatory.
The cask was full of gold bits and the smaller square box had two electrophoric-laser guns, like those which they had lost.
The cry was coming from Mingo and he began to fire his electrophore-laser towards Orren.
Boyce set his weapon on laserand blasted holes into the rock, to make the climb up to the recess easier for them.
The laser setting managed to hit and kill only one hornet which was the size of a human head.
He took his laser from his belt case and seared some marks on a few dozen trees, heading in a straight line, south from the tree in which they spent the entire night.
Their laser rifles were strapped onto their right legs, the hand guns on their right hip belts and their sabres were hanging on their left side.
Lloyd, as well, especially when they found out that those men had taken with them the new electrophore-laser weapons, issued to them.
For the generals and leaders, suits of rubber, leather and gold plating served as armour protection against electrophoric and laser shock.
Dorin made a break-through in light energy emission and began to improve the old police stun weapons, enabling them to utilize a laser capability, as well.
In a sleepy daze he drew his laser and pointed it at the dogs.
Electrophore-laser rifles were in each sack with two energy cells for each weapon, and to supplement fighting, arm-length tempered sabres were given to them, as well.
Before the pig came upon her in its rampant and hostile charge, Boyce fired a laser at it split the pig's skull in two.
Just as he was firing Grenadine grabbed his arm and pointed it towards the ground, allowing the laser to gouge a large hole into the earth.
Boyce made it to his feet and staggered about the area until he found the laser that he dropped early into the struggle.
The outside of the building was pitted with holes and cracks, as well as burns, caused by the bolts of electrophora and laser heat, from the enemy.
Laser instruments, of innovative design and use, were built to take advantage of this new crystal power.
The man, facing the controls of Auxiliary Laser Deployment, had obviously not seen the two generals re-enter.
The automated batteries aboard the Dreadnought picked up and analyzed his presence, aimed a ruby laser and fired: too late.
Eric Muller had been in e-light warp for almost fifteen hours, barely outraced by the laser sounding-beam sent out ahead of him days before.
But when the fanned out cluster of ships began to appear again on laser detection, mockingly unconcealed, he knew that he hoped in vain.
The four Battleships took up their equidistant points about the equator of the Friedrich Schiller, firing a long and continuous heat and shock laser burst into its core.
With a shout their captain ran past the body, now half covered by the rug, and fired a laser burst into the lock.
You won't pick it up on laser or visual, but if you send someone out you will see it clear enough.
And the way the upper atmosphere refracts light, evenlaser is not a sure thing.
He wiped the blood from his mouth, and with his eyes to the floor said numbly, "Auxiliary Laser Deployment.
Huge laser cannons projected from their slanting fronts, all trained upon the thick bar of shadow at the base of the oncoming ridge.
As the unseen circuitry behind it whirred and came to life, a message was carried by thin beams of laser light deep into Space.
She turned back to him, more composed, and wondered only why he made no attempt to aid her: to dim the cutting laser of his eyes.
Essentially, a laser consists of a gas-filled tube or a solid ruby bar with parallel mirrors at both ends.
Or, I should say, the thing that is supposed to look like a laser component.
Where the Russians made their mistake in trying to fool anyone with that thing was in their design of that laser component," said Dr.
The theory behind the heat projector was simply an extension of the laser theory, plus a few refinements.
The laser operator fired and the light beam shot down into the earth, burning a narrow hole.
The earth shook and a great cloud of dust arose from the site, momentarily hiding the laser units.
The light laserunit had been moved out and ten huge crawler cargo carriers with van were being mover into a wide circle around the last soil moisture stake.
Down in the cavernous basin, the laser rolled quickly back to the bore hole where crews slammed magnaclamps on them and lofted them to the surface.
Crews were unshipping the beam heads of the giant industrial laser guns and making power connections to the series of mobile power reactors that had been set up on the riverbank.
The water began rising in the walls of the hole, sealed into a shining shaft of fused rock and silicon by the laser beams.
Ten huge holes gaped in the river bed underneath the laser beam heads mounted on adjustable cranes out and away from their power units.
A cluster of men stood around a compact pole-beam laser unit aimed at the ground.
Alec, Troy and Harbrace, together with Wilson and a half dozen engineers from research and hydraulics and two laser engineers, consulted substrata profile readings.
The coil fed power into a particle accelerator that drove the complex's centerpiece, the Cyclops--a free-electron laser designed to convert the energy stored in the coil into powerful pulses of coherent microwaves.
We've got a major run-up of the Cyclops laser system scheduled tonight for 2100 hours.
It gets data from a radar up here on the mountain and uses that to provide guidance for the laser beam as the vehicle gains altitude.
The nuts and bolts are a little complicated, but it boils down to what happens inside the rocket when the Cyclops laser starts up.
Is your laser going to produce random radio signals?
Using a fifteen-gigawatt microwave laser nicknamed Cyclops, she was about to put SatCom in the forefront of the private race for space.
In 1969 he had demonstrated his ground-based laser concept to NASA, but they had backed away, claiming they had too much invested in conventional chemical rockets.
Since you say you're familiar with its general workings, you probably know that its heart is a twenty-gigawatt laser we call the Cyclops.
The second the Cyclops laser hits the first vehicle, there's going to be a lift-off, all right.
Called SORT, an abbreviation for Simulation and Optimization of Rocket Trajectories, it minimized the laser energy required for an insertion trajectory into low earth orbit.
And all I want in return is to borrow your Cyclops laser for a few days.
She sipped at a cup of black coffee emblazoned with the SatCom logo, the laser eye of the Cyclops, and impatiently drummed her fingers on the workstation keyboard, trying not to be distracted by meditations on mortality.
Laser propulsion is suddenly the hottest thing since Day-Glo condoms.
And he had almost been blinded by the intense blue laser strobes that had purged the island when the Cyclops kicked on.
That bastard Vance just claimed that the Cyclops lasermay set off the device when it starts up.
The laser beam creates a shock wave, a burst of superheated gas moving at supersonic velocity out of the nozzle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
