" He aimed this laser shot at the Oscar-nominated actor who plays the treacherous "house slave" to DiCaprio's character: "Samuel L. Jackson ... plays himself.

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In March 2012 Adam Gardenhire aimed a green laser pen at a business jet and then shone it at a Pasadena police helicopter sent to find the source.

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This X-ray laser was aimed at a piece of aluminum foil, and in less than a trillionth of a second, the laser heated the foil up to 2 million degrees celsius (3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit).

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It comes after the latest incident where a laser was aimed at an Easyjet plane coming in to land in Edinburgh.

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Using pulses of laser light aimed through the appropriate microlenses, the researchers were able to set each of the qubits into a particular initial state a necessary precursor to any calculation.

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Now shine a tiny laser beam through the token, noting exactly where and at what angle you aimed the beam.

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