There is the techno version of the future, filled with personal electronic implants, space travel and laser weapons.

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Or there is the apocalyptic version, where a world has been bombed back into the Stone Age -- and somehow still has laser weapons.

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Dana Marshall, a mechanical engineer, was working at McDonnell Douglas on solid-state lasers for the military--mainly for targeting laser-guided weapons.

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Another new tenant: Ionatron, which makes weapons using laser-guided electricity.

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With no designated spawn point of anti-vehicle weapons like the missile pod or Spartan laser that could counter it, our team was left with practically nothing we could fight it with as our own vehicles were being stolen or destroyed while we were dead.

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It is equipped with advanced electronic, electro-optic, infrared and laser system technologies, as well as secure radio systems with data links and munitions capacity for 130 different types of weapons configurations.

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The stated intention in Washington was to pass laser-guided legislation targeted only at wealthy families, but there apparently was some confusion between the pilot and the weapons officer, because the collateral damage will be felt in all American households, rich and poor.

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