Dec
22
Space Battles
We all know that in the future that there will be no such things as space battles. Assuming we have meaningful spaceflight, being able to move faster than the speed of light, it’s exceedingly unlikely two armadas will ever meet in space. There will only be battles at space stations or planets, where it will be exceedingly impossible for a ship to land without being blown up. And why would you land when you could just send tiny bio-weapons at the speed of light to completely wipe out life on a planet?
“I always imagined that it would be just a huge empty blackness with the other ships too far away to see, the computer would identify and target them, and your ship would fire a cloud of ball bearings at relativistic speeds, which would make them more than capable of destroying any hull encountered. All of this would happen in complete silence and there would be no explosion. The other ship would simply decompress killing anyone in compartments that hadn’t been sealed. The only flight that might happen would be the targeted ship accelerating away on an angle in an attempt to minimize contact with the cloud, but no flashy diving and rolling, just a calculated hard burn.”—
What would a real space battle look like? (via things magazine. Inspired by Gizmodo.)
