Re: OT: Upper limit on Lasers, range and power....
IIRC, lasers used to "shoot down" ICBMs do nothing of the sort of vaporizing anything. What they do is interfere with the tracking and guidance systems, and essentially force it to dive down into the ocean where it would be relatively harmless.
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