utilitas
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Post by utilitas on Jan 21, 2017 12:33:25 GMT
Why gas? Why not just microparticles? Like colloidal silver, for example. Or, hell, copper particles that could then be aligned by an external magnetic field. They would reflect and diffract low power lasers into uselessness, and ablate under the power of very high power lasers, diminishing their effectiveness as ionic plasma that would still, by the way, be aligned by the magnetic field, and therefore possibly restrained from just getting blown away by ablation or the laser itself.
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Post by bdcarrillo on Feb 6, 2017 13:53:07 GMT
Why gas? Why not just microparticles? Like colloidal silver, for example. Or, hell, copper particles that could then be aligned by an external magnetic field. They would reflect and diffract low power lasers into uselessness, and ablate under the power of very high power lasers, diminishing their effectiveness as ionic plasma that would still, by the way, be aligned by the magnetic field, and therefore possibly restrained from just getting blown away by ablation or the laser itself. You'd have to use two magnetic fields of just the right orientation and strength to get the particles to stay in a layer away from the hull. It would get pretty complex around weapon ports, radiators, and engines.
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