Submitted by Sasuke_1738 t3_10lnfy7 in Futurology
nohwan27534 t1_j67merm wrote
Reply to comment by Chance_Age_5869 in Are most of our predictions wrong? by Sasuke_1738
Lasers can be good weapons, especially in space.
In atmosphere, water vapor, energy requirements, etc can fuck up a lasers effectiveness. But even here it could be far more destructive than a bullet.
In space, where firing a bullet at something 186,000 miles away would take about a hundred hours to get there... or a laser a second. Not to mention space is a balance between too hot and too cold, and targeting specific things might cripple an opposing starship easily.
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