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If you paint them with an electron beam, the magnetic shield will deflect them marvelously
by klyrs 2y ago
If you paint them with an electron beam, the magnetic shield will deflect them marvelously
- autoexec 2y agoWould sending out an electron beam move the space station?
- klyrs 2y agoOf course it would! But deflecting space debris is gonna cause motion as well.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoAt the energies needed to power a magnetic shield, and the precision needed to tag hipersonic debris with an electron beam, why not vaporize/deflect them with lasers instead?
- danielheath 2y agoVaporising doesn’t help (the mass hasn’t changed and neither has the velocity). Deflection by vaporising a very small part of the object can work, if you can spot it coming and hit it in time. Assuming you can somehow detect a 1cm piece 1km away, you have approximately 10ms to accurately apply enough power to deflect it.