• discodoubloon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I mean we could, but we’d secretly have to get four battery modules each the size of the international space station into orbit.

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      1 year ago

      Only for solid state lasers. There are other kinds though. But they would still be fairly impractical and heavy to have in orbit. And wouldn’t be good for much more than one shot