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> Oddly the most practical use for this is as an interstellar weapon. I completely don't advocate this, but the 9-year-old-boy part of my brain thinks it'd be
by zeveb 11y ago
> Oddly the most practical use for this is as an interstellar weapon.
I completely don't advocate this, but the 9-year-old-boy part of my brain thinks it'd be pretty awesome to announce our presence to the universe by attacking a star system.
- dsr_ 11y agoA Nicoll-Dyson laser has much the same effect, but you can fire it again and again as long as you still have a sun.
- PaulHoule 11y agoOne of the explanations of why we are not seeing evidence of ETs is that everybody is hiding and afraid they might get bombed by their neighbors; that's because bombing your neighbors is orders of magnitude easier to do than visiting them -- you don't need to solve the problem of decelerating on the other end for one thing.
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