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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
I would imagine that the range of this device would be naturally limited by the curvature of the Earth, unless they could work out some way to make it into an arc?
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A black-hole generator, maybe? Of course, if we had such a thing, we wouldn't need lasers.
I imagine the most practical application for this sort of thing would be air and missile defense. IIRC the article mentions that. Even so, as FF! points out, the groundbreaking bit was that they hit a moving target from a moving platform. One would not imagine that to be difficult with a laser, but apparently it is. If our technology is so limited that we consider the above to be groundbreaking, I humbly suggest that we invest our resources into something a little more practical, like screen doors for submarines.