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Laser Beams Deflected Off of Nothing but Air for First Time Ever in Breakthrough Patent Pending Process - The Debrief (thedebrief.org)
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Laser Beams Deflected Off of Nothing but Air for First Time Ever in Breakthrough Patent Pending Process - The Debrief::An international team of scientists report that they have successfully used acoustics to deflect laser beams in an engineering first.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Space battles would be so much cooler if every now and then the phaser gets split around the ship instead of hitting the shields.

Would also work even when shields are down.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But that needs air. There's no air in space.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Doesn't need to be air "in space", there just needs to be air somewhere between the laser weapon and whatever it is you don't want the weapon to destroy...

    ... although it'd probably be easier to use a mirror. Maybe one pointing directly at the person holding a laser weapon. ;-)

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