• teft
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    211 year ago

    You also wont be able to see them with the naked eye. Imagine you’re on patrol and your buddy drops dead and there was no sound and no visible sign except the crackling from the fire that carved a hole in his chest. War is already scary enough tyvm. Everyone is going to have to wear white or reflective gear.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      or reflective gear

      It would be fun if the silver spandex of classic Sci-Fi turned out to be standard uniforms to counter laser fire.

    • @[email protected]M
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      41 year ago

      Just like with snipers today, although i suspect that giant laser is not optimal weapon in high stakes hide and seek game

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        If there’s a constellation of them orbiting a few hundred kilometers up they’ll be pretty optimal. Like fairly optimal. Sufficiently optimal.

        • @[email protected]M
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          31 year ago

          You can’t hide those from ground-based anti-satellite laser

          It’ll be like with GBAD in Ukraine but in space, and satellites can shoot at other satellites too

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            Okay, hear me out: camouflage. Desert camo for the satellites orbiting between Earth and Mars. Ocean gray for satellites orbiting between Earth and Neptune. And we can get Hugo Boss to design the camouflage for the satellites between the Earth and the moon.

    • brianorca
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      1 year ago

      If they are wearing white, all the better to see them, and use a variety of guns on them. Besides, no white is perfect, even when clean, (which won’t last long) so the laser would still chew them up.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Also depends on the frequency of radiation used. Does it reflect infrared or microwaves? UV?

        • brianorca
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          11 year ago

          All true, but nothing reflects 100% even in the best case.