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The Future of 3D Printing Chicken Breasts
The future is here and it's an unseasoned 3D printed chicken breast cooked by lasers. In the summer of 2021, a research team used lasers to help redirect lightning bolts toward a telecommunications tower that's there to measure this kind of electrical storm stuff. The basic idea is that high powered lasers can ionize some air molecules and basically help carve out that path that guides the flow of electrons from the cloud to the lightning rod and vice versa.
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