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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 27, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Is the technical difficulty of an attack like this significantly below building a two-axis gun turret or building a bomb?

If you still need to aim the laser, might as well aim a gun. If you don't need to aim the laser (e.g. you use some clever way to reflect the light onto people, which will cost you in effective range), might as well build a bomb.

All those things almost never happen, because the people with the skills and high agency to do something like that almost universally don't want to.