Added 1 new A* page:Here is an interesting new article--if you're into these things--about a new laser gun the Navy is going to deploy on a ship in the Persian Gulf; the LAWS--"Laser Weapon System"--is powerful enough to burn through steel if held on target, and has been 12 for 12 in tests in taking out little things like incoming drones and speedboats. The article has some interesting details on the mechanism, like how the power level can be adjusted to, for instance, simply "dazzle" and confuse attackers, and how the energy necessary for each (presumably full power?) laser pulse costs "under a dollar."
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I often show some of the disasters involved in finishing off an A* page, but I don't often show the attempts that never even make it off the runway; well I had a good number of those today, so here's one of the earlier albatrosses:
I'm finding myself more and more outright rejecting a layout, erasing the whole thing, and trying something a bit different. It's nice not to have to settle for your first idea, I suppose, because a lot of mine are stinkers!
Here were what turned out to be the final pencils:
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