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Posted by Mercutio 2022-07-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Put the same thing on a sat, with motors and such to aim the shooty end and you have a crudely aimed space laser! Yaayy!

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-21 05:57|| 2022-07-21 05:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Distances in orbit make it unlikely to be useful. The inverse square law is a bitch.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-21 07:31|| 2022-07-21 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Getting enough power to make it dangerous is the biggest problem....

Posted by magpie 2022-07-21 09:32|| 2022-07-21 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ With great power comes great fire insurance.

Distances in orbit make it unlikely to be useful.

A laser beam is highly collimated so it does not spread much. I would expect atmosphere effects like turbulence and refraction to be bigger problems.

Posted by SteveS 2022-07-21 12:31|| 2022-07-21 12:31|| Front Page Top

#5 With great power comes great fire insurance.

That could apply to my last DnD group. Had a tendency to set everything on fire, intentionally and other. Set fire to two inns with a very loose respect to hands of fire and braining an idiot with a firebrand.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-07-21 16:21|| 2022-07-21 16:21|| Front Page Top

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