Re:A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 ...
by skykooler on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:44PM
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Keep in mind that a single spaceship wouldn't take up the whole beam - for one thing, there would be a bunch of them, and for another, we simply can't focus a laser on something the size of an iPhone from even as far away as the moon. That said, it is still a massive amount of power that needs to be reflected.
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