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Wouldn't it be really easy to convert that technology into a weapon? Giant space lasers and all that jazz?
by gameshot911 8y ago
Wouldn't it be really easy to convert that technology into a weapon? Giant space lasers and all that jazz?
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoThe cost of doing that would have to exceed the value of providing clean energy? So the political gain would have to be enormous to bother (already have bombs etc). Granted, anything designed to project terawatts has got to be treated with respect.
- rbanffy 8y agoHaving a weapon no country can shoot down on short notice is a very attractive proposition. Satellite killers already developed are aimed at destroying spy satellites. Putting your space weapon on a higher orbit (and having a couple of them, able to cover all the surface of the Earth at any given time) would make it immune to ground interference. By the time someone is able to launch a rocket to get you, you already melted down the launch facility into a nice sheet of glass.