/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12683735
The show is retarded. I read 5 of the books but I only watched until Miller died in the show. It should’ve never become some interstellar wormhole shit they should’ve just kept it interplanetary

>>12651424
To test their ability to kill enemy satellites, and also to show that the capability is there. I have no idea why they gave Polyus a manned compartment though but the damn thing could support a crew. Also it had a laser.

>”The laser chosen for the Skif spacecraft was the 1-megawatt carbon dioxide laser, developed for the Beriev A-60 aircraft (an Il-76 flying laboratory with a combat laser).”

>>12235814
hullo has a pretty good space gunfight video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7qqHDViFko

Actually now that I think about it there's something messed up with Polyus. Wikipedia says it had a 1-megawatt laser but even the ISS solar panels can't generate 1 mW. Solar panels like in the pic here couldn't come anywhere close, especially not with 1980s Soviet tech. Did it have a nuclear reactor on board or have its capabilities just been badly exaggerated?

>>12235823
>tfw no orion drive USS Discovery to intercept and board derelict alien spacecraft

>>12176000
polyus is kinda proof positive that soviet computers weren't up to the job, no?