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At 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 l
by ASalazarMX 2y ago
At 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.