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House13Games t1_ixmahh6 wrote

Reply to comment by Usernamenotta in Space travel Shielding by Actual-Macaroon8240

So at what range can you detect a dust particle? If you come creeping up behind it and gently nudge it, there's no need for lasers. And what if it IS a tennis ball sized bit of debris?

I posit that anything travelling at such high velocity as to endanger the ship, will not be detectable in time to get an energy weapon on it long enough to vaporize it and give it time to disperse.

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fencethe900th t1_ixmmz55 wrote

It all depends on how much power you have on hand for radar pulses. Provided you have the power requirements for the pulse you can detect anything that isn't made to evade radar, at pretty much whatever range you want.

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