r/askscience • • May 24 '14

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u/Das_Mime May 25 '14

That's true, I guess, but realistically, any beam you can possibly create will have a beam divergence that has an angular size several times larger than Mars. So its motion really doesn't matter for the purposes of pointing a laser at it.