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200 w/sqm is not a weapon. It's barely enough to keep you warm in the winter time.

• godelski 2y ago
  You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean you understood my point. It seems you aren't aware that space is not controlled by a single country. It's ruled by international agreements. Do you really think everyone sitting at that table is going to be using that power to make laws based purely on the merit of the technology and it's safety? Or do you think they're going to be bullshit arguments that are reaching at best? We both know the answer to that. Predicting what they will argue is not the same thing as saying their points will be valid. But you also can't just pretend that bullshit won't exist.
  • bryanlarsen 2y ago
    The laws of physics make Jewish space lasers impossible. Anybody willing to ignore international agreements to develop weapons can reach for the very effective nuclear, chemical or biological weapons rather than for imaginary impossible ones. Using a directed energy weapon to shoot down drones is millions of times more feasible than space lasers -- thousands of times more concentrated power, thousands of times less air dispersion, on the softest possible target. Yet using lasers to shoot down drones is so ineffective that we're not doing it. You're proposing something a billion times more difficult.
    • godelski 2y ago
      > Anybody willing to ignore international agreements to develop weapons can reach for the very effective nuclear, chemical or biological weapons rather than for imaginary impossible ones. Which, to be clear, happens quite frequently. > Yet using lasers to shoot down drones is so ineffective that we're not doing it. You're proposing something a billion times more difficult. Who said anything about shooting down drones?