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We'll be able to recognize the threshold of their implementation when we start to see the launch of orbit sweepers designed to destroy, or disable, opposition satellites. Concurrent with ideas of any such weapon would be the creation of its countermeasures. There is nothing more fleeting on earth than technological military superiority.OK, the qualifier "Israeli" is bait, but I'm serious. Are space lasers really a thing?
[*]Lasers aren't legitimate weapons on the ground, for several reasons:
- They don't have the range through near-sea-level atmosphere, to justify their other drawbacks,
- They can't hit targets below the horizon,
- They violate the Geneva convention by blinding civilians
They also requiring huge amounts of electricity which can only be provided on the battlefield by nuclear reactors
So way out at sea where there are no civilians, and a big warship has the power to operate them, they may be somewhat practical. The US certainly has them, and I know that because China has them and isn't smart enough to hide them.
But from orbit, most of these problems go away. Shooting straight down on targets there is no concern about backrange, and with much less atmosphere between the space laser and the target, it could be closely focussed to take out one person. Bodyguards or family standing nearby would get nothing worse than hair on fire. Nuclear reactors in orbit would be nothing new.
Israel is a long shot, but odds are the US, Russia and China all have this technology. And we won't know until some crazy leader uses it.
I gave you a like for weirdness.And if that doesn't get your juices flowing, what if Biden's scanty hair catches on fire and he drops dead of hyperthermia? Harris carries the House and Senate with a war agenda against whoever did it, and it's a year later and we're still not sure if it was the Russians or the Chinese who killed our President?
Scientists could tell you which satellite (or satellites, mulitple beams from different directions would work best, as in radiotherapy) were overhead at the time, but politics has undermined the scientific consensus. Any major power planning to assassinate the US President would surely invest in scientific opinion to muddy the waters.
We'll be able to recognize the threshold of their implementation when we start to see the launch of orbit sweepers designed to destroy, or disable, opposition satellites.
Concurrent with ideas of any such weapon would be the creation of its countermeasures. There is nothing more fleeting on earth than technological military superiority.
If you can build it, you can destroy it.
I gave you a like for weirdness.
Yep,Are space lasers really a thing?
Checkerboard already explained there is such a thing as space lasers but not enough to actually do damage.
Oh no, they CAN do damage.
What I said was, back in the Reagan SDI era, they couldn't figure out how to reliably aim it and control the tracking of the target.
But believe me, it passed the test as far as being able to destroy a target a very long distance away, it's just that the target was also held stationary, so it was
almost like a "canned hunt" where people get to pretend that they hunted a wild beast.
Here's the "Thermal X-Ray Laser" my father helped develop. And since he was Jewish, it qualifies as a real actual genuine "Jewish Space Laser".
Forgive the juxtaposition of objects left to right, phone cameras in front don't flip everything to compensate on selfies.
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Today the technology for aim and tracking is apparently worthy of deployment in a real life situation.
It was built for Reagan's SDI, and yes the target used in testing was out in space.Very interesting, thankyou.
X-rays have trouble getting through atmosphere, so that design would only be useful in space, against space targets. Correct?
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