I wonder what happens if you throw a sack full of mirror shards at it just when it shoots
Navy ships and shorelines are gonna be riddled with mirrors when the US attacks.
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Post by: Xant on July 19, 2017, 10:23:05 pm
Was my first thought too. Second and third generation lasers in space? Good luck trying to hit the US with missiles. And in fact, good luck trying to do anything, if they can fry all your electronics and vehicles and anti-air from space at the speed of light.
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Post by: Asheram on July 19, 2017, 10:36:09 pm
Was my first thought too. Second and third generation lasers in space? Good luck trying to hit the US with missiles. And in fact, good luck trying to do anything, if they can fry all your electronics and vehicles and anti-air from space at the speed of light.
and after that hit them with this
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Post by: Grytviken on July 19, 2017, 10:37:14 pm
Mirrors won't reflect those high frequency lasers.
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Post by: Westwood on July 19, 2017, 11:03:02 pm
Was my first thought too. Second and third generation lasers in space? Good luck trying to hit the US with missiles. And in fact, good luck trying to do anything, if they can fry all your electronics and vehicles and anti-air from space at the speed of light.
Would have that today if not for Slick Willy
or at the very least kinetic bombardment through Brilliant Pebbles
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Post by: Drunken_sailor on July 19, 2017, 11:51:22 pm
fake news faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake
back in my day we just shot down drones with bullets... fukin kids these days.
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Post by: Xant on July 20, 2017, 06:47:56 am
Was my first thought too. Second and third generation lasers in space? Good luck trying to hit the US with missiles. And in fact, good luck trying to do anything, if they can fry all your electronics and vehicles and anti-air from space at the speed of light.
not if u equip ur missiles with blackholes that absorb all the light
checkmate missilophobes
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Post by: Drunken_sailor on July 20, 2017, 04:37:02 pm
Not once we build our lasers satellite with quantum fluctuation targeting devises that allow super-heated subatomic particles to ungulate all up in your missiles.
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Post by: Vibe on July 20, 2017, 05:11:13 pm
that's unrealistic
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Post by: Asheram on July 20, 2017, 05:32:26 pm
Lasers from space would be a pretty dope development for a time. But I also feel like in orbit there's nowhere to hide.
Once multiple countries possess lasers with that range and precision they'd probably want them in space, but in the event of a conflict or preemptive strike it would be easier to identify and target those objects in orbit from the ground than it would be to guarantee you've hit every ground target from orbit. Also, it would be logistically much easier to set up ground-air. So whilst only a few countries like the US might have the ability to set up a system in space, many countries could possess ground-air capabilities at undisclosed locations whilst the location of lasers in orbit would be much more visible.
The first step in a conflict would then be lasering these items out of orbit, then straight back to the old meta.
That's why we're going to laser 'em before they can do that. Also once American private space companies become the norm for putting shit in orbit (like, a year from now or something), it's going to get way cheaper to do so and we'll stop using Russian rockets for NASA shit. At that point we could sneak cute little orbital lasers into space whenever we want mostly unbeknownst to Russia, China, Iran, Canada, and other pariah states.
We can surely put more lasers (and dumb bombs, which would be majorly cheap) into space faster than anything another nation can do to stop that.