But again, even its spherical form was designed to lower the damage.
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It won't matter, the energy its dealing with will destroy it. It can mass scatter a planet 100 times its size.
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But the planet can reflect/deflect that energy?
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No, and nether can the Death Star, it's not just thermal energy they have to worry about. Once you get lasers that powerful the kinetic energy will be so immense that even if they can completely reflect the thermal energy (which they can't) they will still get destroyed.
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Kinetic?
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Lasers have kinetic energy, it's just that it usually doesn't matter because lasers in real life are to weak.
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Really? But it's light...
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It has momentum http://youtu.be/M-VZdJu0bLU