Meteor Blasters

Energy beams that would destroy space debris or rocks that lay in the path of a spacecraft. (Read the full article)

"Though meteors aren't as common as Golden Age SF would have had it, something like this _would_ be necessary for an STL starship because even dust particles can be deadly if you run into them at a high fraction of the speed of light."
(Jordan Bassior 12/23/2006 6:36:40 AM )

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