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Depends on the width of the beam. If it's as wide as a laser pointer, the odds of it hitting anything are infinitesimal. When something's a light year away, cha
by Cpoll 4y ago
Depends on the width of the beam. If it's as wide as a laser pointer, the odds of it hitting anything are infinitesimal. When something's a light year away, changing the bearing of the laser by a degree will cause you to miss it by hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Or to rephrase, to hit something a light year away you'll have to get the heading accurate to many decimal points. (Exercise left to the reader, it's high school trigonometry, but I'm rather lazy).
- PKop 4y agoIt's also a statistical question that involves how many black holes there are. Do you have a strong sense of that number, because I sure don't? Quick search says there are a very large amount of black holes but maybe not so many super-massive that produce these beams of light so eh, who knows.