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Right, if you have the tech to allow you to course correct an object traveling at relativistic speeds you have the tech to defend against on by moving it out of
by edgyquant 5y ago
Right, if you have the tech to allow you to course correct an object traveling at relativistic speeds you have the tech to defend against on by moving it out of the way.
- marcosdumay 5y agoYep, that's probably correct. Even more because you can just throw something into the projectile too, and destroy it... And they can throw something into your projectile, and etc. I don't think anybody can make any claim on what side is easier. But targeting the attack does not seem to be the hard part.
- Retric 5y agoThe belief is that detecting the attack in time to do anything makes defense more difficult. Your warning is limited by light speed, so detecting something moving .99c at 100 AU and you get just over 7 minutes to respond. Worse, it doesn’t need to be some solid object. A loose field of debris 1,000 miles wide could sterilize a planet with enough mass and enough velocity.