From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Feb 12 1999 - 06:17:16 MST
Darin Sunley <umsunley@cc.umanitoba.ca> writes:
> What do you people think would
> be "realistic" space-based weaponry, i.e. weaponry that obeys the laws of physics that might reasonably be deployed from an interplanetary spacecraft with the goal of
> disabling/destroying another
> interplanetary spacecraft?
This question is almost constantly debated on rec.arts.sf.science
The short answer seems to be: depends a lot on what kind of propulsion
you have, and if it is possible to detect other spacecraft well.
The trick isn't to do enough damage, at the speeds interplanetary
spacecraft moves even some nails coming in the opposite direction can
be enough to disable or destroy it, it is to hit it - space is large
and spaceships are small.
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