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So, thank you all for the excellent and reliable work... far too often I don't see enough recognition in this thread.

And please, for the love of sweet baby Jesus, turn us back to blue and get rid of that rainbow stuff :(

Asa is a spoilsport.

Return us to the rainbow goodness! It reflects our hippy ways.

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There's blue (like those in Blu-Ray players) and recently developed green lasers.

Green lasers are actually fairly old. There are lasing mediums in almost every color and wavelength imaginable, including microwave, ultraviolet and infrared. The real question is whether they cheap, useful and easy to make. I think you're referring to the recent cheap availability of green laser pointers.

I work with a laser that can readily melt metal and will blow your skin right off if you let it, and it's not even particularly special nowadays. Heck, inertial fusion lasers have passed 1 megajoule per pulse, think a little over a half pound of TNT force being delivered to a spot the size of a pin head. That's more energy density than a nuclear bomb.

Wikipedia is a surprisingly accurate off the cuff source for interested parties

Inertial Fusion Lasers

Lasers

Military Laser

Military Laser 2

Military Laser 3

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July 8, 2009

top.png 1 [217] (+1) The Order of the Paradox : 48.41 --> 48.54 (+0.13)

sanctionspartatc0.jpg 2 [648] (-4) Sparta : 48.44 --> 48.32 (-0.12)

sanctionmhadc4.gif 3 [698] (-1) Mostly Harmless Alliance : 46.05 --> 46.29 (+0.24)

sanctionpolarwv6.jpg 4 [415] (+1) New Polar Order : 41.26 --> 41.37 (+0.11)

sanctionodnto4.png 5 [374] (+4) Orange Defense Network : 33.09 --> 33.30 (+0.21)

Tdoflagv401-1.jpg 6 [690] (+3) The Democratic Order : 33.01 --> 33.14 (+0.13)

sanctionfarkzg7.jpg 7 [317] (-2) Fark : 29.22 --> 29.10 (-0.12)

gpa.png 8 [226] (+3) Green Protection Agency : 28.90 --> 28.98 (+0.08)

sanctionironcd8.png 9 [509] (-5) Independent Republic of Orange Nations : 28.32 --> 28.29 (-0.03)

sanctionnpoec6.jpg 10 [641] (-5) New Pacific Order : 26.28 --> 25.90 (-0.38)

TOOLminiflag.jpg 11 [260] (+0) The Order of Light : 25.09 --> 25.13 (+0.04)

sanctionfokqu8.png 12 [239] (-1) FOK : 24.46 --> 24.49 (+0.03)

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{178} (+0) World Task Force : 23.59 --> 23.62 (+0.03)

{91} (+0) The Grämlins : 23.28 --> 23.32 (+0.04)

13 [273] (+1) Viridian Entente : 22.69 --> 22.70 (+0.01)

14 [361] (+0) The Legion : 20.00 --> 20.07 (+0.07)

{153} (-2) Mushroom Kingdom : 19.31 --> 19.09 (-0.22)

[235] (+0) Athens : 18.62 --> 18.54 (-0.08)

[331] (-10) Ragnarok : 19.37 --> 18.28 (-1.09)

[234] (+2) Monos Archein : 17.36 --> 17.44 (+0.08)

[272] (+1) United Purple Nations : 17.23 --> 17.30 (+0.07)

[262] (+8) Global Alliance And Treaty Organization : 16.32 --> 16.46 (+0.14)

[229] (-2) Invicta : 16.04 --> 16.04 (+0.00)

[261] (+0) Multicolored Cross-X Alliance : 15.96 --> 15.96 (+0.00)

{148} (+0) Commonwealth Of Sovereign Nations : 15.86 --> 15.78 (-0.08)

{143} (-2) M*A*S*H : 15.28 --> 15.14 (-0.14)

{172} (-3) Nueva Vida : 15.16 --> 15.12 (-0.04)

{165} (+2) North Atlantic Defense Coalition : 14.74 --> 14.79 (+0.05)

{78} (+0) Umbrella : 13.66 --> 13.68 (+0.02)

{189} (+1) Siberian Tiger Alliance : 13.57 --> 13.49 (-0.08)

{170} (+0) Random Insanity Alliance : 13.20 --> 13.24 (+0.04)

{152} (-2) We Are Perth Army : 13.10 --> 13.08 (-0.02)

{142} (+0) RnR : 12.43 --> 12.45 (+0.02)

{117} (+0) The Templar Knights : 12.37 --> 12.39 (+0.02)

---------- Add Line : 12.23 --> 12.25 (+0.02)

---------- Drop Line : 11.93 --> 11.95 (+0.02)

Biggest Gainer

sanctionmhadc4.gif 3 Mostly Harmless Alliance : 46.05 --> 46.29 (+0.24)

Biggest Loser

Ragnarok : 19.37 --> 18.28 (-1.09)

Passes of the Day

top.png 2 The Order of the Paradox passes sanctionspartatc0.jpg 1 Sparta

Mushroom Kingdom passes Ragnarok

Athens passes Ragnarok

Commentary

- Big news today, The Order of the Paradox is back on TOP after passing Sparta again. I told you it would be a close match! :P Well, the gap between them is now 0.22 so don't look for much joy tomorrow unless one of them collapses spectacularly or one of them happens to gain several large nations.

- The other "look out here" race between Orange Defense Network and The Democratic Order has heatened somewhat. Both posted large gains however the one in front stays in front, by a gap of 0.16.

- Ragnarok collapses spectacularly today dropping a whopping 1.09 for the loss of 10 nations, gaining them Biggest Loser as well as being passed by two alliances. However the next alliance down (Monos Archein) is 0.8 away - so I don't think RoK will be being passed again tomorrow unless they collapse again.

- We've started with losses, let's continue with them. Their loss was so high it just had to be Biggest Loser, but there were other losses, which on 99% of other days would've taken out the award. An example of this is the New Pacific Order's -0.38, and possibly Mushroom Kingdom's -0.22.

- Other losses included M*A*S*H (-0.14) and Sparta and Fark (both -0.12).

- Gains were more abundant especially with the Sanctioned Alliances today. Mostly Harmless Alliance caps it off with the largest gain of 0.24, but other great gains from the Sanctioned Ones included Orange Defense Network (+0.21), The Order of the Paradox and The Democratic Order (both +0.13) and New Polar Order (+0.11).

- Special shoutout to Global Alliance And Treaty Organization who was the only unsanctioned alliance to post a gain over +0.1, with their +0.14.

- Tried a new format today, Sanctioned, up to the 14th, next 10, the rest (which also happened to be 10 entries as well!)

- Today's shoutout goes to... everyone! Yes, everyone gets a shoutout today :awesome:

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Related Links:

Stats By Unspeakable Evil

Tournament Edition Sanction Race

How To Update the Amazing Sanction Race

Sanction Race Update Creator spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pFd...rmXWQ&hl=en

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Team Tour

July 8, 2009

MHA does a great deal to pull Aqua out of its hole today, but RoK ruins the party by dropping nearly a full point and dragging Aqua down to 11th place in today's race. On the plus side (for them, at least), the three Red alliances take three of the bottom six places for today, and Red drops nearly three-quarters of a point to take last place. Silence surprises once again, shooting up into third place, while GATO bumps up Brown's hopes for an eventual victory with a strong fourth-place showing. Orange's strong charge, led by ODN and TOP, falls just short with a second-place result by the narrowest of margins.

In other news, we've got a three-way race for fifth, giving me even more stuff to talk about for the next few days. Silence has a half-point lead for first place on their closest competitor, NpO. RoK is nearly three points out of first place, but knowing them, we'll see some merger from them a few days before the race ends. Brown retains nearly a full-point lead on second-place Blue, although I think I seriously messed up the team stats yesterday, because the math doesn't quite work out between yesterday and today, but the new stats should be good.

Numbers in brackets show how far behind the leader each alliance/team is.

Full results: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=ryo...BQNiw&hl=en

Individual Stage Results

1. Mostly Harmless Alliance @ +0.25 (-0.00)

2. Orange Defense Network @ +0.21 (-0.04)

3. Silence @ +0.18 (-0.07)

4. Global Alliance and Treaty Organization @ +0.14 (-0.11)

5. The Order of the Paradox @ +0.13 (-0.12)

...

56. Ragnarok @ -0.94 (-1.19)

Team Stage Results

1. Brown @ +0.39 (-0.00)

2. Orange @ +0.37 (-0.02)

3. Blue @ +0.17 (-0.22)

...

12. Red @ -0.77 (-1.16)

Individual General Classification

1. Silence @ +1.28 (-0.00)

2. New Polar Order @ +0.82 (-0.46)

3. Orange Defense Network @ +0.60 (-0.68)

4. Sparta @ +0.59 (-0.69)

t5. World Task Force @ +0.55 (-0.73)

t5. Green Protection Agency @ +0.55 (-0.73)

t5. The Legion @ +0.55 (-0.73)

...

56. Ragnarok @ -1.64 (-2.92)

Team General Classification

1. Brown @ +2.27 (-0.00)

2. Blue @ +1.24 (-1.03)

3. Green @ +1.12 (-1.15)

...

12. Aqua @ -1.57 (-3.84)

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