In 1944 they thought we'd have laser guns by 2000 It's 2019 and we don't have anything better than what they had in...

The internet is absurdly advanced, to the point most sci-fi authors thought nothing like it could exist until we were already Krypton-tier.

Bet those clowns never thought a paragraph of less then 140 characters that ruins lives could exist either.

If your life can be ruined by a tweet it wasn't worth shit to begin with.

He means 'your life' as in 'the results of the economy being fucked into the floor' by reckless tweets.

If your economy can be ruined by a tweet it wasn't worth shit to begin with.

because we discovered cyberbullying is a more powerful weapon than lasers

The military probably did but wasnt publicized until now.

I have always hated this argument. Just look at what people in 1844 thought would be happening in 1900 and you can see both how ridiculously fast technology is improving compared to then and that people have no idea what they want that far out.

Seriously, what is a laser gun going to do that a current gun doesn't?

Nazi germany literally invented hovercrafts.

And what good did that do them?

>we don't have anything better than what they had in 1944
It's easy to overlook since it's been the background since before most of us were born, but modern weapons outclass those of 1944 by a larger factor than those of 1944 outclass sticks and stones. The modern US would have been able to defeat every combatant of WWII inside half an hour.

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A hovercraft is NOT a hoverboard. I want my Mattel Marty McFly pink-ass hoverboard.

They still lost lmao because of WASPS

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Yeah technically they were 'wheeless cars' but you get the idea.

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No recoil, no drop, virtually no travel time, looks cooler than projectiles

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Are lasers even practical as weapons?

No, otherwise we'd have them.

Given an arbitrary level of technology, a laser is probably going to be less capable of damaging an arbitrary target than a physical projectile. Lasers fundamentally have poor energy application and armor penetration compared to a kinetic impactor. That said, lasers are hard to dodge or defened against at close range (where lightspeed travel time is low compared to the target's ability to move). If you want to blow something up at range, you send a missile / relativistic impactor / etc. If you want to shoot down incoming stuff, you use a laser, since even now they can track things like artillery shells, and warheads are generally not very hard targets. If laser point defense is good enough, the only way past it may be something like a bomb-pumped laser that's fired from a missile just outside point defense range. In close range engagements (as would be typical on the surface of a planet) they could be effective against soft targets, but their inability to shoot over the horizon or other obstacles would severely limit them compared to projectiles.

The types of lasers they have developed right now at best transfer microwave signals. In order to get your melting-people laser you almost need to be connected to a power plant. My guess is that development went more into the micro-wave style models is because of mobility.

It's also because phased arrays that work in the microwave band are technically feasible at this point.

>we don't have anything better than what they had
Fucking what? It may not be star trek levels, but we are leaps and bounds above what we had in the 40s

Also Smell-i-vision hasn't replaced Television.

That's not how actual laser weapon looks like. You won't see colourful rays in a mlitary-grade lasers.

Instead we're just obsessed with putting computers in everything. Want a computer in your phone? That's a thing now. Want a computer in your watch? That's a thing now. Want a computer in your fridge? Really? That's seriously a thing now too. It doesn't matter if there's any practical reason to put a computer in something, it's just that it's the future and everything in the future is also a computer. Pretty soon there's going to be smart toothbrushes, smart toilets, and smart lawnmowers so you'll never have to do anything for yourself ever again. Hope you never lose your internet connection because everything's going to be on the cloud too. Tech companies have to store the data they got from your smart trash can somewhere, after all.

If a laser is powerful enough to act like a scifi death ray, it will cause visible ionization of the atmosphere even if the laser light is not visible.

>Pretty soon there's going to be smart toothbrushes, smart toilets, and smart lawnmowers
Have I got news for you, user.

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>Nothing better than 1944.

Material technology, chemical engineering and firearm design has come on leaps and bounds since 1944. Your baseline cheap target/hunting rifle is more accurate than all dedicated sniper rifles (a loaded term, but one I'm using to refer to those high-accuracy rifles that were further worked on to provide the best shooting platform available en masse in the period, which was typically the best performing production bolt action rifle with a good stock, bedding, etc) at a fraction of the cost. New calibers have emerged that push range and kinetic energy of rounds far beyond what they had in 1944 with less propellant and bullet mass. We have decent capacity sub-compacts in service pistol calibers like 9mm and .45ACP. Lightweight semi-automatic rifles rule the civilian markets where they're legal and the small arms carried by the infantryman today give them greater firepower in a single section than what was in a whole company in 1944. The idea that we're on the same level of gun tech today is ludicrous.

we have laser guns, its just that old combustion weapons are more easy to build and pratical.
we also have flying cars already, but no fucking way we can trust on any normal civilian to fly one.

Seriously, I think Gorak has joined the thread.

>Are lasers even practical as weapons?
Define "practical". Loads of militaries around the world are desperately trying to figure out ways to disarm a nuke and other military weapons and vehicles with lasers and they are really getting there. And when I say this I don't mean you'll see them soon, I mean that with each breakthrough they find with laser science, they are moving tiny step that's smaller than an atom but its the fact that they keep finding more and better breakthroughs along the way. Laser science or whatever you call it is a pretty fast moving science. The stuff I remember reading in science text books that were labeled "just discovered", in middle school, were now being used for everyday stuff by the time I left highschool. Shits that wild.

Will you support my sex change so I can become a MtF? I swear I won't be a lesbian.

The fuck are you talking about? The United States military has laser guns, kinetic weaponry, and rail guns. Maybe your country should stop being a shitty 3rd world country OP and have the resources of an entire continent to pull and the most advance technological society.

P.S We had flying cars since the 1960s.