nohwan27534

nohwan27534 t1_j67merm wrote

Lasers can be good weapons, especially in space.

In atmosphere, water vapor, energy requirements, etc can fuck up a lasers effectiveness. But even here it could be far more destructive than a bullet.

In space, where firing a bullet at something 186,000 miles away would take about a hundred hours to get there... or a laser a second. Not to mention space is a balance between too hot and too cold, and targeting specific things might cripple an opposing starship easily.

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nohwan27534 t1_j67lytv wrote

Eh, that's pretty weird prediction shitty too.

People act like it's right around the corner, but as of last year when my PC crashed, there was still no known experiments actually showing age reversal, or even slowing down, technology with peer reviewed tests done.

It'd be like people crazy about teleportation news when there's been no legit teleportation testing done yet everyone assumes it'll be the hot new industry this time next decade. Even worse, actually, as aging experiments take longer to get results in.

It feels like scientists are getting investors hyped and everyone else assumes the major breakthroughs are coming a mile a minute.

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nohwan27534 t1_j67l0xm wrote

Yeah. Just too many people making too many predictions about too many subjects.

I mean even the end of the world, millions assume it's within the next 5 years, and have for seemingly quite a while. So pretty much every 5 years that's millions of wrong predictions.

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