Good day everyone,
this is my first posting here, I followed the link to this group from
Project Rho. I have a question that I didn't find covered on that
site, so I thought I'd ask it here:
In a setting where you have to reckon with powerful reusable lasers,
wouldn't it make sense to make a spacecraft's hull highly reflective
-- effectively, a mirror?
No, I'm not trying to argue that the beam could be returned to
sender ;), I'm just thinking that the beams could be reflected
randomly into space, as not to harm the original target.
Essentially, it boils down to this: the beam has to reflect off
several mirrors before it leaves the cannon, so the wavelength must
permit reflection. So what happens if the laser beam hits another
mirror after leaving the cannon?
Or will such powerful lasers work without any mirrors at all, and have
beams impossible to reflect?
I'm not talking about one-shot gamma-ray laser bombs.
Thanks in advance. ^^
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