if a lazer hit a watermellon what would happen

Question: if a lazer hit a watermellon what would happen
- Keywords:
  animal,
  laser
Asked by lanb25 to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 18 Mar 2013.
- James Holloway answered on 18 Mar 2013:
  
  A big one from one of the national laboratories?
  
  It would bore a thin hole into it, turning that big of melon into a super heated plasma which would rapidly expand blowing the hole bigger. Fast moving electrons would be created which would hit other atoms so hard they would become radioactive.
  
  You couldn’t eat it afterwards 😉

Question: if a lazer hit a watermellon what would happen