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by ChrisFoster 2191 days ago
In terms of engineering, I can't see how steering this beam would be remotely viable: it appears you've got to line up the long axes of the 1000 km circumference muon ring to point exactly in the direction of the weapon to be targeted. So to have it steerable at all it appears necessary to make it space-based. Having done that, it seems the energy, reaction mass and and time required to steer the thing would be pretty crazy.

From a basic physics viewpoint this seems surprisingly within grasp though in terms of energy scales. Greatly entertaining!