/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2852381]

Possibility of the use of lasers for terraforming?

Discuss.

[Anonymous No.2852390]

If you could deliver zomgwtf power levels in picosecond pulses or something from orbit (so you don't get fucked over by blooming), you could presumably make shit vapourise and explode on the ground.

[Anonymous No.2852394]

>lasers
>terraform
like...an ice planet or what?

[Anonymous No.2852389]

>>2852381
>use of lasers for terraforming
Lasers would be great for drawing graffiti on the surface of planets. What use have they for terraforming?

[Anonymous No.2852411]

>>2852381

>>2011
>>Still don't have ZOMGWTF lasers...

[Anonymous No.2852419]

>>2852381
Still got 5 billion years before the sun dies to figure it out.

But what would a laser do to a planet except graffiti.

[Anonymous No.2852424]

>>2852411
>ZOMGWTF lasers

For what use? Heat up an asteroid by 1°? To comunicate with a nonexisting mars base?

[Anonymous No.2852476]

>>2852424

To FUCK SHIT UP with a FUCKING LASER, ya reprobate.

[Anonymous No.2852493]

>>2852419
>wake up one morning to discover i've become a mad scientist
>modify the Sun so that the light from an entire hemisphere coheres on a tiny guidable spot
>threaten to point that spot at the Earth
>cackle

[Anonymous No.2852489]

If you wanted to heat up the surface of a planet, then giant mirrors would make more sense. Or using a big asteroid as a gravity tug to move a planet closer to its sun.

Lasers are more suitable for landscaping or digging canals than terraforming.

[Anonymous No.2852494]

>>2852489

> Or using a big asteroid as a gravity tug to move a planet closer to its sun.

If you have the energy to move a fucking asteroid large enough to shift a planet you could probably just move the fucking planet.

[Anonymous No.2852508]

They could be used for terraforming planets that don't have enough lasers.

[Anonymous No.2852537]

Terraformfags don't seem to understand we are savage apes, our intelligence is so low we are dependent on a plethora of learning aids just to aid our memory and those with freak mutations that allow them at least some semblance of mathematical ability tend to be inferior in other areas making them incompetent. We are little different from a drolling 'tards lying in it's own shit and piss mumbling incoherently. Firstly any terraforming would have to be economical, we wouldn't use lasers we'd use fucking mirrors, mirrors that consist of giant sheets of cheap reflective material stretched taut, practicality is the only way to do things on a large scale, you can't do everything you can in a lab with an entire economy. Even today in a period of enormous technological growth, freedom and prosperity the majority of the population still live in poverty and are all worthless retards (by our standards). Secondly there is no point using a huge amount of resources terraforming worlds just for us worthless fleshbags, transhumanism should be the first priority, we need to create new intelligent life forms that use something more effective than meat to manipulate the material world.

[Anonymous No.2852550]

>>2852494
Actually you can use relatively small asteroids as tugs. From an engineering standpoint it's much less of a challenge to have a stream of asteroids pass by than move a whole planet.

[Anonymous No.2852556]

>>2852381
>>2852493

They already did that, in this book.

[Anonymous No.2852557]

>>2852493
>Build giant concave mirror on the opposite side of the sun
>Focus a whole steradian's worth of solar output to the Earth

[Anonymous No.2852566]

>>2852557
>implying said mirror would act as a sail
>implying said mirror wouldn't radiate in the infrared
>implying said mirror would have the tensile strength to stay together
Actually you could fix the last one....

[Anonymous No.2852572]

>>2852566
>Implying it matters
>Implying the bigger engineering challenge is not simply how to create something so enormous and put it up there in the first place