" 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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Cable-climbing robots, powered by laser beams shot upward from the ground, or downward from space, would take payloads to orbit.

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One reason that it and the airborne laser were shot down was that military planners fell out of love with chemical lasers.

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