Cars with fricking laserbeams
When I'm driving along the motorway sometimes I imagine that other cars I'm overtaking have invisible laser beams shooting out of their wheels and I have to leap my car, Dukes of Hazzard style, over theirs or the lasers will blow out my tyres and I'll crash.
(bigjonnydynamite, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 6:40, 4 replies)

wont a blu-ray laser do this?
(Lip Up Fatty Fatty Reggae still loves BBQ food on, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 7:44, closed)

The burner lasers can pop balloons, so I guess maybe...
if you could ensure it was pointing at the same point on the tyre for bloody ages.
Given that it's a rotating target moving in relation to the "firing" vehicle and vibration from the road alone would make holding a beam steady (as in within 1/2 beam diameter so at least one point is always being hit), though, I'd say probably not. All you'd have to do is make sure you're not sat next to a car with a huge amount of targeting equipment for more than, say, 10 minutes. More than that, actually, as the tyre's got air-cooling.

So pretty much, no. Not while driving.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 10:22, closed)

Oh my word
I used to suffer from something similar when I was young and sat in the back. For some reason I would imagine I was playing a kind of computer game where I had to "jump" the car so it bounced in the gaps between lampposts. Strange, but strangely soothing.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 11:01, closed)

I had a Nd-YAG in the back of my car once
which was pretty powerful and would have popped a car tyre after a while. (But not on the move, as uberdeity says.)

Unfortunately, I was taking it from the lab to the repair shop, so it wasn't exactly a James Bond scenario.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 12:27, closed)