Ever since I’ve seen the Veritasium video on cosmic particles, I was wondering how much of a threat it would pose to our current computer systems were it to be used as a weapon.

Suppose the power allows to you to shoot streams of cosmic ray from your fingers.

  • It can be as intense as you want as long as it’s reasonably harmless to humans.
  • You can only direct the rays towards objects within your field of view or whose position you can confidently approximate, so you could target a nearby server behind walls or a plane in the sky, but not a computer on the other side of the world.
  • You can use this power for as long as you like with no cooldowns or energy consumption.
  • No one can observe the rays, not even yourself
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    11 days ago

    Considering that some cosmic ray reach energy in the Joule range, it would definitely be very bad.

    On the other hand, people would use you as a particle accelerator for research and that’s damn cool