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>>8709109
Skellerator.

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>>8650615
Mix a small amount of water into a large amount of Aspirin, then take a small amount of the water-Aspirin mixture and mix it into even more Aspirin.

Repeat the dilution process until there is a ratio of one water molecule per billion aspirin molecules. Then take 500mg.

First you have the engineering problem of the dyson swarm and focusing that shit.
Then you have the engineering problem of dealing with losses from interstellar dust and gravitational aberrations causing your laser to miss.
Your sun-beam will work at distances of a few lightyears if you fix the first two problems.


Your sun-beam will not work at distances of tens of lightyears because of the limited angular resolution of the system. Light has physical dimensions and the plank length is the minimum distance.
Consider a joystick that has 4, 8, 16 or 32 directions it can detect. You can only aim to a certain resolution, even with modern (digital-)analog joysticks there is still a discrete number of vectors that can be generated, even if the number is large. If you need millionths of arcseconds of resolution, good luck. Your only choice now is to make the beam wider which reduces your power/cm^2

There is a reason lasers become nearly unusable beyond a few light-minutes.