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Hmmm. Interesting. I wonder if there would be a way to tighten up and lessen the divergence. Would a laser using a different type of photon work better? Say a Gamma ray laser with really high energy and a really short wavelength? Or would a longer wavelength work better, I am reluctant to...

Plus wouldn't it be like a sniper firing a rifle and hitting a quarter four or five miles away. You might be able to build a laser that was capable of shooting that far, but the the amount of calculations to hit a moving target light years away I suspect would be astronomical.

Well I am going to have some big lasers, some medium distance ones, and a hell of a lot of smaller ones. I'm not sure that bigger single laser communication set up would be able to work. It is the volume of data that I'm concerned with. Basically I've got virtual reality world where most of...

Yeah, that's what I had thought. But my Mars example was a simplified example. The idea was to build brudges between this solar system and Alpha Centauri or Proxima Centauri by deploying thousands of chains of asteroids from the kuipier belt, to pass data between them. I was worried that in...

I'm working on a science fiction novel, so feel free to ignore reality if you bother to answer this. In my book (rough draft) I was using laser beams to transfer data. Essentially imagine a relay of nodes between the Earth and Mars. Each node contains at least one (and probably more) laser beam...

Hey, I just wanted to say hi. I'm working on a Science Fiction novel and had some speculative science questions that I will ask elsewhere. Than you for your time.