ALPHABETICAL ORDER! All those named were essential to make it work...

and while we're on the subject, I seem to remember that you're fooling around with chemicals - why the fuck aren't you using solid state heat capacity lasers - couldn't pass the security clearance?

It is only just recently that solid state lasers at 589nm could be built, before that the only option was a dye laser- I am working to get a solid state laser on the other Keck...

A heat capacity laser would be completely useless for our application, as you would know if you bothered to educate yourself... Actually the ideal laser is a fiber laser- it is compact, efficient, and reliable- unfortunately, a fiber laser at 589nm has not been made with the required power. I have seen a fiber laser under development and have no doubt that it will succeed sometime soon.

As for a security clearance, I have never required one...

finally, while all this astrophysics stuff and trying to solve the grand mysteries of space and time is all fine and good, it's not going to mean shit when the next impactor hits -

LOL what a one track lil mind you have...

I dont suppose that you know that the scopes are used to understand the composition and structure of comets and asteroids, do you?

in closing, next time you see an accretion disk, remember that the illumination of junk by CME is real, not an illusion -

Really, that statement speaks more of your ignorance than I could... I will let it speak for itself...