UT is home to one powerful phallic symbol: a giant laser that produces a petawatt (a quadrillion watts) of energy. The laser is part of the Texas Petawatt Project–supporting the most powerful laser on earth.
Even Wired magazine featured a snazzy article today–that’s right FEATURED–on its site. Notice, however, that all the photos were given to them?
That’s because it’s top secret–Damn right. Locked away in the basement of some cold, ugly engineering building, only authorized personal may access it. Few have seen it and fewer have lived to tell of it… Others furtively captured a video for us on a mobile phone.
The laser is actually so powerful, its capable of creating a star.
*And what the Daily Texan didn’t tell you– it’s used for expanding fusion energy research.
Damn we’re cool.