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Super Weapons

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Advantages of a Category 7 Super Weapon

Rkms can break apart sooner and spin out more like a shotgun blast the entire system potentially distributed over a year or more. The main shot will be moving far faster than the escape velocity of that galaxy it will pass through into the wide avoid leaving the place colonizable afterward. You could launch two large iron slugs at least large asteroid mass from different directions timed to intersect at the Star Wars core. This trick is used in the Bobber Wars book series by Dennis E. Taylor and should work on lower mass stars. We might also really scale this effect up by re-igniting active galactic nuclei or dumping whole stars into a galaxy's central black hole possibly releasing galaxy sterilizing levels

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