When Blink-182 went on hiatus early last year, singer Tom DeLonge all but disappeared. He didn’t just withdraw from the pop-punk band that had clocked some 12 years together and 10 million in record sales; he also withdrew from his wife and daughter and re-thought his life. Then he thought some more. Today he knows where he’s headed — his new band, the unabashedly anthemic Angels & Airwaves, hits with a new CD this month. But DeLonge, 30, still has his head in the sky as he sits in the group’s rehearsal studio. It’s in Carlsbad, California, about a half-hour north of his San Diego home. The walls are covered with murals of planets, twinkling stars and deep-space scenes, and DeLonge sounds like an astronaut himself. The new CD, he says, thinks big.“The two things I want to tackle are love and war, the best and worst of mankind,” says DeLonge. “We’re starting to be aware of things like quantum physics and time travel and mapping the human genome. And yet we’re still creating war as if there were no other ideas.” We ask what his new band will have that Blink didn’t. He reflects before answering.“Lasers,” he says finally. “The last six months of Blink I was fighting really hard to get lasers, and somehow they just didn’t want them. So now we’re going to have lots and lots of lasers, so strong they burn the retinas of everyone in the audience. Everyone’s gonna need surgery.”