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Next question: on what planet/moon should the mosquito be to be _just_ safe from the laser?


Well, mass scales as the cube of radius, and we have 15 orders of magnitude to work with, so I guess it should be an object on the order of hundreds of meters in radius. But as noted, the duration of firing matters as well. Given https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054239, the actual laser can only vaporize much smaller things.




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