This wouldn't work in space. It's not being pushed up by the laser, it's rapidly heating the air under it and causing it to expand, pushing the cone up. How is that going to happen in space if there's no gas up there?

@@yourma2000 You are right in this exact case. But maybe you find it interesting to know, that gas from onboard tanks or an ablative solid could be used for this concept to work in space.

@@sciencelab4225 We call that rocket fuel, don't we?

@@yourma2000 My response seems to have disappeared. The interesting thing about using gas or ablative materials with laser beam powered propulsion, is that we avoid having to install an expensive and heavy turbopump system and combustion chamber. I don't know how practical it will turn out to be, but the idea is really cool.

DOD vid of some sort. These are the early stages of what everyone thinks are ufos today, the “gimball” craft, these are decoys and they saw them during training exercises.

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They are using it to power U.F.O's🤔

This is used for DoD these are decoys and surveillance this will never be public tech or at least not in our lifetime

@@iamwill3561 saucers are more likely to use MHD engines which arent related to aliens or anti gravity at all

I'm sure there is a way

You can when you make a spheroid object with as close to 360 degree laser-surface area to propel at will, especially since it can glide in a high winds it just needs to nudge it self in the direction it needs to go and can track nearby currents for quick shifts

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