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Is it shooting lasers? I thought laser weapons weren't invented before 1977?
Tracer rounds? Not sure they were doing particularly high speed photography with this image.
I just DuckDuckGo'ed it. Turns out the laser was actually invented in 1960 it was just considered a useless invention until Star Wars proved it could be uses for weapons.
Tracers that point both ways.
My birth was a byproduct of that, rumor has it.
It’s the heat…