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    Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    Maybe they can call the first laser the Colbert Cannon...
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    Can't we just launch a shitton of flypaper into space?
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    03/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Well that would certainly clean up some of the debris whizzing around..
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    No laser batteries!


    The last thing you need is some hillbilly in a scrap-head taking potshots at the exhaust vents while some tricked out Roomba strapped to the trunk makes blurp-blurp noises.

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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    build a satellite with huge magnets, and make it roam around earth, harvesting at least every magnetic piece of debris... They know where that stuff is, don't they? so it should be possible to collect that stuff?
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    03/12/09

    @swissdude: ain't no iron up there. magnet no workie.
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    03/12/09

    @swissdude: Also, a magnet's power decreases by orders of power as you move away from it. What you are proposing is like standing on the pitchers mound of a baseball stadium, and dropping a piece of metal from the backfield wall. It won't fly towards you.
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    you guys are all wrong. this is exactly why we need forcefields. lasers are for the weak and used to distract cats and substitute teachers.
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    Can we strap bodies to it? Works for the Reavers. And red paint. Lots of red paint.
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    Then there's recoil. I recently saw a documentary about the space race between the USA and USSR. In USSR they had a spy satellite that was equipped with a cannon. According to them it was fortunate that they never had to use it - the recoil and the resulting vibration would probably have rip the thing to pieces.


    Even laser turrets must be equipped to dampen recoil.


    I know - I've seen Star Wars.

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    03/12/09

    @KVirtanen: Didn't they test fire it?
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    Weaponizing the space station will only draw flack from the galactic community. Remember, the interstellar police force is far beyond any weapon of ours.
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    03/12/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: The Vogons won't like it.
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    03/12/09

    @LithiumIronman_GitEmSteveDave: The Vogons are no match for Gort. By the time they've finished proposing the plan of attack, losing the proposal, finding the proposal, subjecting it to public query and burying it for five weeks, they've already dead.


    I never took Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz for a competent commander.

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    03/12/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Dude. Relax.


    It's not a moon. It's a space spation.

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    03/12/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: The rest of the Galaxy will gaze down at our puny lasers and say, "Oh look, they've added some strobe lights to their orbiting Motel 6..."
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    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: It has a safe in the closet?!?!
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
    But the laser recoil would send the ISS into gimbal lock... or not...
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    03/12/09

    @khetti: if they fire them in opposite directions at the same time it will counter the recoil effect..
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    03/12/09

    @khetti: lasers don't have recoil - recoil in a gun is caused by the force of the explosion that sends the bullet forward. as we all know from 6th grade science class, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. so firing a bullet forward also fires the gun backward, but with less force because the bullet has way less mass than the gun
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    03/12/09

    @berky93: Easier way to put it, photons have zero mass.
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