Just a fun Question!!!

[Wits' End]

This question was asked before, months ago. One of the replies had a link to a testing device that "burned" powdered Aluminium. If it was true it is probably the brightest man-made, replicable light. I said replicable because I wanted to exclude Hydrogen bombs

. I wonder though if some of the high-powered lasers might have a brighter spot, not total Lumens.

 

[Wits' End]

Not the brightest but it is pretty

 

[Wolfen]

The nice white stars are pretty...that red stuff looks like I had about a fifth of Jack Daniels and a bad buritto

 

[James S]

I've seen lightening "simulators" used in film production that were basically a big propane burner and on pushing the button a big puff of aluminum or magnesium dust was blown into it to create a very bright flash. Worked really well!
I suppose you could build a light that continually burned a stream of aluminum powder, wait, isn't what the space shuttle solid boosters burn?

We could always go back to http://users.chariot.net.au/~rjnoye/Lantern/Lighting.htm#The Limelight.

 

[Roy]

Didn't the US Army have a laser that they were testing that would shoot down flying objects? I also saw on TV where one of the Research Labs was testing a rig that would support a disk in the air using a laser. They had to check for planes, shuttles, sats, etc flying overhead prior to firing off the laser. Those would be some kind of BRIGHT lasers!