• Jomega@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    To my understanding, (I’m not a physicist) It’s not so much that they wouldn’t work in space as they’d be severely weakened upon entering our atmosphere. It would be both cheaper and more effective to simply use a conventional explosive than it would be to invent a sci-fi super weapon.

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        2 days ago

        My understanding is that the space lasers of conspiracy theory fame are supposed to be used to control the weather. Got a hurricane in Alabama? It’s because the “globalists” pointed the space laser at a cloud or something. Yeah. These people are fucking nuts.