The monster laser would have to be built in space if you want it really effective...
The atmosphere, which has been something I have been fighting a quarter century now, will greatly degrade the beam quality making the beam divergence much larger and causing scintillation (fades and surges in intensity) in the far field...
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The monster laser would have to be built in space if you want it really effective...
The atmosphere, which has been something I have been fighting a quarter century now, will greatly degrade the beam quality making the beam divergence much larger and causing scintillation (fades and surges in intensity) in the far field...