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Forget radio waves and lasers, what would happen if someone aimed a particle accelerator at a satellite. Just a tight beam of relativistic protons fired from th

Forget radio waves and lasers, what would happen if someone aimed a particle accelerator at a satellite. Just a tight beam of relativistic protons fired from the earth's surface into the sky?

xscott 5y ago
Not my area of expertise, but my guess is they'd heat the air near the accelerator. There's a lot of air between here and there.
dboreham 5y ago
Someone like Iron Man?