Russia building ‘laser cannon’ death ray capable of blasting targets in space

metro.co.uk ^ | Monday 11 Jun 2018 11:04 am | Jasper Hamill

[Red Badger]

Blast from the past...............

[rlmorel]

Oh no. Whatever will we do. We’re doomed.

[rlmorel]

Love threads like this...

[Red Badger]

We will build BIGGER lasers!.....................

[Williams]

I hope ours is 10X bigger and actually works.

[lightman]

Ping

[cgbg]

Researchers at a subsidiary of Roscosmos, the Russian equivalent of Nasa, want to turn a telescope at the Altai Optical-Laser Center into a cannon which will blast space junk.

I want to win Powerball.

[Red Badger]

I want a Tardis........................

[blueunicorn6]

Do they play some Moody Blues music when they shoot it?

People in Seattle would pay $50 to see it.

[spokeshave2]

Ours is mobile...or was until cancelled by obambi

[Celtic Conservative]

That I probably it. Both sites are in kazakhstan.

CC

[Dr. Sivana]

[Nifster]

A ground based version of SDI

Don’t care what the Russians claim this ain’t gonna work

[Little Ray]

Good plan.
We should build a few, too.
Face it - we need to clean the debris out of Earth's orbit before we get a cascade vent.
Shooting up satellites and spacecraft is just a bonus feature.

[Nifster]

Because laser power diminishes very quickly with distance and beam cohetence goes to hell traveling through the atmosphere

All the dreams out there are just that

[Nifster]

And the laser ain’t easy

[Simon Green]

Now how did I know without looking that the headline came fro a British tabloid...?

[doorgunner69]

I have no idea what I posted that you are responding to or why.

[montag813]

Utter nonsense. They have no such capability, and will never build this.

[montag813]

"Gentlemen, we must NOT allow a LASER GAP!"