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Various Scifi Weaponry and Destructive Potential

Or you know. Equal and opposite reaction. Whatever material you make the laser gun out of that can sustain that heat at its most potent and concentrated (the gun barrel) you just... Coat your ships in. And now enemy lasers are useless. And that is completely ignoring conservation of energy.

Also, to explain the formula in layman's terms: The further the laser travels, the more enegy will dissipate into surrounding space, since it is a weapon of pure energy, this means it has a restrictive maximum range.

Oh, and this is ignoring the fact that if you can build up that much energy, contain it, and fire it, you are equally capable of simply deflecting it. :p

Various Scifi Weaponry and Destructive Potential

Although, as a quick protip, in space, the more inconspicuous the object, the more effective it will be. Trade ships carrying suicide tsar bomb payloads, a few hundree asteroids with thrusters on them built by self replicating drones hurled at a planet (as you only need one to hit to "win" as it were and it would be obscenely cheap to pull off.) Space wars would be more espionage and hitting the enemy so hard the first time they would be incapable of a retalitory strike. Otherwise, anything blatant and obvious like a space fleet of war ships is easily seen and countered long before it can reach you.

Various Scifi Weaponry and Destructive Potential

Lasers? You know how terrible those would be in space as weapons? The law of conservation of energy would utterly render them useless at anything beyond "knife fight" range in space. Because every second it travelled, it would lose significant chunks of power to dissipation. Yes, it moves at the speed of light. No, that still isn't fast enough in space.

If you were to engage in space, it would only be against planets, because planets are the only things that can't really dodge whatever you fire at them. Even then, a planet probably has vastly more defences to wage against an incoming fleet than the fleet could muster against it.

Space battles in space, if we are talking hard sci-fi, just would not happen.

Soft sci-fi, it could go in any direction, though.

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Doivid said
people aren't always logicalor, alternatively, what they want isn't always tangible.

And thus why we have so much confusion in the world. So says guru Brovo. *hits gong*

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Kestrel said
wen u post borov

When I can haz internet. Because this phone cannot google doc. Because it crashes when it tries. Because it was made in Taiwan. Because we are cheap. Because we value everything on currency instead of quality. Because... Pancakes, Idk.

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Doivid said
so that's a no. Got it.

I know you want something, people do not talk without wanting something. It seems logical and all that jazz.

Ask me questions, I'll answer them!

When are you going to torture your Skype mates into posting on LoR 2 for me while I move into my new place and wait for the internet techie? :p

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Lady Squee said
WHO IS BOROVI only know Brovo.You traitor.

I'm his knockoff Russian friend obviously.

Alex said
I see my mind-magic is working on you, Borov.

Phone typoed to that and I decided to roll with it.

Doivid said
have you figured out what I want from you yet?

Something.

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Am I doing this bandwagon shit right or what?

In all seriousness this is a slow work day. So go ahead and ask questions of someone who moved out of his dad's basement yesterday.

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The Nexerus said
That is a nonsensical comparison.

You're right. It isn't as extreme as telling someone they cannot use certain birth control methods because it might piss off the Aztec Sun God.

It should be up to the individual employee to decide. Not the company.