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All right, KI40GQ back. Yeah, they built the prototype and it was a melding of so many technologies. The aviation part, the machinist part, what do they call it, conformal optics where they, you know, a concave mirror that had actuators on it that would deform the surface of that mirror. You know, one or two microns either direction and it was, you know, so many different, it was a world class astronomer at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque that had been researching, compensating for atmospheric disturbances in the atmosphere with conformal optics. The laser part, they had a directive energy lab, Philips Lab at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. They were doing the mock ups of, you know, not blasting out the sky like Star Trek, but heating the skin of the Scud missile to the point where it deformed and knocked it off the trajectory. So, you know, but it was a melding of technologies and the learning how to take different technologies and merging them into something different that, you know, we need something to challenge us in order to be the sleeping giant that Admiral Yamamoto referred to in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. But, you know, that's just my two cents. Anyway, thanks for letting me check in. KI-40-GQ.