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Insightful. But aiming back would be all kinds of hard. There's very little time before your contraption stops reflecting due to being burned by the unreflected
by emiliobumachar 7y ago
Insightful. But aiming back would be all kinds of hard. There's very little time before your contraption stops reflecting due to being burned by the unreflected portion of the initial beam.
- aeternus 7y agoA retroreflector does not require aiming nor moving parts, it simply uses geometry to ensure that a lightbeam is always reflected back to its source. Retroreflectors are cheap to build and well-understood. It is a very interesting idea, the reflectors likely will burn but you could cover the missile with them. You only need to reflect enough to disable/weaken the emitter.