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There might be a cool storyline where we have to use enormous ground based lasers to clean up and start again.

Could even look a bit like the iconic Gibraltar WW2 search lights photographs.


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jcgrillo11/20/2024

What would zapping a satellite with a laser achieve? I suppose if you get it hot enough to melt everything, without anything flying off, then it would turn into a spherical drop of molten scrap... but then what?

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