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by balt_s 2860 days ago
> a comics megaweapon capable of blowing spacecrafts from orbit

So it does have some use other than just launching probes..

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I'm not sure that's an advantage. It adds a strong political component to something that's unlikely to be a cost effective weapon. So foreign powers will contest it and domestic powers will be unlikely to put their weight behind it. Kind of like nuclear rockets - in theory a workable technology, yet so controversial nobody will touch it.