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My whole life I’ve wanted car companies to make their concept cars but they never do and I always wondered why. Well the comments show why, because people are full of crap. People say they want a futuristic car or something out of bladerunner. They say they want something unique but at the end of the day they buy a…

There are two problems with Stadia.

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This is the most important one:

It is also deflected by variations in refractive index; this is seen as a difference in apparent location as detected by radar vs the laser light path. Not likely a huge problem but larger than gravity effects.

Alternatively, a simple answer to all of the above:
I’ve been sitting in that uncomfortable seat for hours and my legs/knees stretching.

How sad is your life to take the time to write all this shit. I couldn’t bother myself to read it entirely.

Fair point, but at least a laser is involved in the process. I just thought if you’re going to reference lasers from scifi, perhaps pick an example with actual lasers. Star Trek has lasers on more primitive ships, but it’s usually mentioned for comic effect.  Babylon 5 had honest laser weapons.  Stargate has them, as…

<A laser also travels in a straight line, and unlike a projectile is not subject to the effects of wind and gravity.>

The issue with coatings is it adds weight. For a missile that means both decreased range and speed. Plus the laser is going to ablate any coating pretty quick so you have to make sure it’s able to protect the missile long enough to get to the target.

I do the exact opposite; I stand up as soon as the plane takes off

The woman holding her naked baby swinging its piss soaked feet near my face? Sit down.
Old couple who can’t wipe their ass but want to bend and reach? Sit down.
Big man, rubbing your bare gut on my shoulder peeking out from beneath your flannel shirt? Sit your big ass DOWN.
Four foot woman who wants someone to pull…

Star Wars Turbolasers are not strictly lasers either, they are plasma weapons where the gas (Tibana or something like that) is excited by a laser into super-heated state and then slowly pushed out the barrel by force demons or something.

Do you know what I do when the plane lands? Nothing. I sit there and relax while all the busy bees trip over themselves and get angry and work their blood pressure up trying to get two minutes ahead of each other, and when they’ve finished I leisurely stand up, grab my things, and saunter casually off. It is not…

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The future of warfare is going to involve a lot more smoke and mirrors.

Han didn’t use a laser, it was more like a focused bolt of plasma moving through the air, probably held together in some sort of electromagnetic shell to keep it from dissipating as it flew through space to its target. They do have laser turrets in Star Wars though on capital ships and space stations.

Every once in a while I am reminded of the early days of the WWW, when folks would try to bring people together in fun and creative ways.