Imagine barreling down a road while being chased by a
giant death
laser, at which point you run up a wall and end up on several different routes depending on which direction you take and whether or not you decided to jump.
Imagine, like Dr. Evil, you have access to a
giant, tunable
laser located on a
giant, fast moving hover ship, and you can radiate the Earths surface with, on average, 10 W / m2 of radiation.