Sentences with phrase «as giant lasers»

When considering signs of civilisation that could be visible around distant worlds, many people picture those that require extreme technological prowess, such as giant lasers or Dyson spheres — huge structures that harvest power from a star.

Then the Albatross rises and takes its place in the sky; not as a giant laser cannon, but as a titanic floating fortress of death.

Not exact matches

That is where two giant facilities in Louisiana and Washington state come in, operating together as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO).

Known as the National Ignition Facility, the proposed laser is a giant, much more powerful than any laser that has ever been built before.

Sandia's dark - horse entry in the fusion race still consumes far more energy than it releases, but that is also true of the more conventional — and more expensive — approaches to fusion, such as bombarding encapsulated fuel with laser light from every direction (as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., does) or using giant superconducting magnets to heat levitating plasma for minutes at a time inside a doughnut - shaped chamber (as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France may do when it's completed around 2027).

He and his colleagues have conducted long - term studies of the dust disks around old stars and the changes in aged red giants such as Betelgeuse, and are preparing the telescopes to look for possible infrared laser signals from newly discovered planets circling nearby stars, in search of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Really giant robots, space laser beams, Peter Cullen, and more are shown off in this latest video for what we're hoping will be not only an awesome co-op game, but an awesome Transformers game as well.

One can't help but giggle every time Geoffrey Rush appears as the hammy sun god Ra, hanging out on a space sailboat designed like a Cable Ace Awards set and shooting lasers at a giant sandworm.

Besides the different areas each level also contain usable level items such as a neon sign you can throw at your opponent or a giant laser beam you can use to burn your enemies.

And as a special bonus — just in case Michael Jackson turning into a giant robot that shoots lasers seemed too normal for you — enjoy this explanation - defying clip of the music / dancing game Space Channel 5 from the Dreamcast.

It's great fun to weave through asteroid fields, ruined space stations, and the hulking steel skeletons of giant spacecraft as you lob missiles and laser blasts at enemy pirates, all while your wisecracking A.I. copilot heckles you mercilessly.

Few things are as exciting as giant mechs, especially when they're flying around in space while shooting laser cannons at one another.

To put it another way, they're not as fun as simply jumping across giant laser walls or spike traps.