I’m not talking about something that would destroy a planet but let’s imagine China or the US colonizes Mars and builds a laser powered by a nuclear reactor with an output of a few megawatts, would it be possible for them to start forest fires on Earth without being detected?
>>65554425yeah it's possible
>a few megawattsYou mean a few petawatts or exawatts, good luck hiding that shit. You would need to turn Mars into a giant mirror.Best bet is a relativistic weapon reaching lightspeeds, problem is that nothing can hide in space.
>>65554425I don't think that's even really physically possible. Exit Mars's excuse for an atmosphere, make it all the long way back to Earth, and then make it through our actual atmosphere. Set aside all the time where you wouldn't be aligned to even have a line of fire to Earth.>>65554451Yeah, I don't think megawatts would even cut it here. If Mars Colony wanted to use a long range weapon on Earth, it'd rather want to station orbital weapons platforms carrying nuclear weapons instead. Around Earth I mean, not themselves.
>>65554425You're now manually aware of the Hall Weather Machine and the consequences of a planetary scale phased array aperture for photon weapons
>>65554425I use muh laser weapon now. I send "never gonna give you up" wmv files to all the planets I can find.
>>65554425For fear my credit score being deleted, I must say no. it is entirely impossible that a nation or people group would be able to develop such a weapon. Or use it in that manor. All of the forest fires have been created naturally or by careless people
>>65554912Dumb nigger.>uhhh yeah so the planet is getting hotter and also we refuse to do proper forestry management while stupid retards with no thought to consequence fuck around with fire, surely this must be the jews
>>65554918That's odd that "da joos" was your first thought at what I was hinting at......... Dude it's 2026, we all know by now they aren't behind everything......
>>65554425Are you telling me that the Canadian fires were caused by alien laser technology and not ragheaded muzzies running around lighting fires from a station wagon and the "auto pen" wasn't real?
>>65554425No, anyone with a 7th grade understanding of physics would understand why. I know OPs are always retarded, but the last few years they've taken the fucking cake.
>>65554928>was your first thought at what I was hinting atThat's what everyone else likes to sideways 'hint'.The government aren't doing it either. They're just incompetent and/or shortsighted and/or arrogant.
>>65554425It's physically impossible. For interplanetary warfare you want a mass driver on the moon hurling rocks at your targeted planet.
>>65554425Lasers suffer from charged particle spreading, this isn't much of a factor until you are firing it millions of miles. For example the 140 million miles to Mars would be a major problem.
What about a Penrose Mirror?
