One X-ray laser already exists in an underground facility at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, where it spans several football fields in length.

If technologists could not properly take a simple chest X-ray, how can they be expected to safely operate ct scanners or linear accelerators?

Last year, the venerable two-mile-long linear accelerator, where charmed quarks were discovered, was converted into a new kind of powerful laser that will create super-brilliant X-ray pulses.