Comment on Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

• sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It can be used that way, sure, and the Very Civilized Starfleet uses them conservatively. But a beam weapon that is capable of disintegrating anything (unshielded) that it touches is crazy powerful. And those are only the hand phasers; we don’t often see the phaser rifles, but holy heck. If phasers scale like projectile weapons do, a single phaser rifle would be capable of vaporizing entire buildings, tanks, aircraft.

  source

  • BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t a simple mirror be enough to reflect the rays back to the sender?

    source

    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Phasers aren’t lasers, and the beam isn’t light; so, probably not.

      source