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minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agounrelated question. if you focus thousands of medium or low wattage lasers to a single point, will their wattage combine to equal that of a high powered laser?
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agothis is great! then again, this thing will be much closer to LEO than the moon, but it would probably still take billions of people to do it to have any impact. 🤷 guess we’re just going to need to work on surface to air anti-material projectiles.
unrelated question. if you focus thousands of medium or low wattage lasers to a single point, will their wattage combine to equal that of a high powered laser?
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this is great!
then again, this thing will be much closer to LEO than the moon, but it would probably still take billions of people to do it to have any impact.
🤷 guess we’re just going to need to work on surface to air anti-material projectiles.