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Ana Khouri
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Posted - 2003.09.01 05:56:00 -
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Sure it is - welcome in the twilight zone of sci-fi raping science terms  The whole lenses thingy is nonsense anyway since there's no way the improve the energy output of a beam by lenses.
If we want to use a laser with only MW wavelengths a lens would filter out all other wavelenths and let only MW through it - but by doing so it would actually decrease the damage output, since it isn't adding energy to the beam, but removing it.
A more realistic approach would be having all lasers the Multifreq damage & range by default and all frequency crystals would lessen the damage and imrpove the range.
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Ana Khouri
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Posted - 2003.09.02 18:52:00 -
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Uuups 
Thanks for the lesson
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Posted - 2003.09.02 22:47:00 -
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I think you are confusing dissipation with absorbtion here, Avon.
AFAIK dissipation the the widening of a beam over time/range due to the impossibility to focus a beam perfectly and the influence of photons in the beam on each other while absorption is the absorption or redirecting of photons due to the collosion with "hard" (aka atoms) objects.
I have *no* info how big absorbtion and dissipation are in space, I think dissipation has a bigger effect in space and absorbtion a bigger in a atmosphere, but that are only educated guesses.
We should keep in mind, btw, that the eve combat ranges and speeds are not very realistic (so far one can use the term "realistic" for space combat). The ship speeds without MWD don't get bigger than mach2 and the RL atmosphere artillery (which has to use ballistic trajectorys) actually outdistances eves artillery.
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Ana Khouri
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Posted - 2003.09.04 02:50:00 -
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Sifferent type of lens and a misunderstanding. a magnifying lens still doesn't imrpoves the damage output, it uses exactly the same energy it receives, it's just focussing it.
On the other end a filter lens is blocking a wavelength, therefore reducing the total power a a ray of light.
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Posted - 2003.09.04 13:09:00 -
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Yes, but focussing a beam doesn't changes it's frequncy 
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Posted - 2003.09.05 09:42:00 -
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Accurancy of lasers & rails - yes, but only if you manage to point them in time into the right direction, too. Their RL speed would just mean that they have a optimal range of many 100 km, but they can still miss a fast moving ship if their turrets cannot track it.
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