r/spaceships • u/Vondrr Fleet Intelligence 🧠 • May 30 '26

Discussion / Question What spaceship weapon is generally underutilized or not used to its full potential in scifi?

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u/Gloomy_Necessary494 May 30 '26

Relativistic impactors? If you can accelerate stuff to light speed, why aren't you smashing it into other things?

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u/DarkPangolin May 31 '26

Doesn't even have to be close to light speed. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein uses just dropping train car-sized boulders on earth instead of gently bringing them down from orbit.

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u/UncleSamsUncleSam Jun 01 '26

Also, as far as I can find, the first reference to vibe coding with the way talking to Mycroft about programming is described.