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stouset • yesterday at 5:48 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

As you get going further and faster, this energy redshifts further and further making it less and less useful. Also there’s of course the problem of focusing a laser with that amount of energy tightly enough on an object increasingly far away.


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iso1631 • yesterday at 6:30 PM

And crucially ensuring that beam continues to run for billions of years. a few decades may pass for you, but not for the laser that's pushing you

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