It turns out that there are ways to smear a laser beam across the frequency spectrum while maintaining high intensity and collimation, though I am curious as to how you propose to “pull a Maxwell’s Demon” in the face of beam intensity such that all condensed matter instantly vaporizes. (No, mirrors don’t work. Neither do lenses.)
As for scattering your parts unpredictably so that most of the attack misses—then so does most of the sunlight you were supposedly using for your energy supply.
Finally, “trust but verify” is not a new idea; a healthy society can produce verifiable accounting of roughly what its resources are being used for. Though you casually pile implausibility on top of implausibility; now we are supposed to imagine that Hannibal Lecter created his fully populated torture chamber solar system all by himself, with no subcontractors or anything else that might leave a trace.
Eliezer,
It turns out that there are ways to smear a laser beam across the frequency spectrum while maintaining high intensity and collimation, though I am curious as to how you propose to “pull a Maxwell’s Demon” in the face of beam intensity such that all condensed matter instantly vaporizes. (No, mirrors don’t work. Neither do lenses.)
As for scattering your parts unpredictably so that most of the attack misses—then so does most of the sunlight you were supposedly using for your energy supply.
Finally, “trust but verify” is not a new idea; a healthy society can produce verifiable accounting of roughly what its resources are being used for. Though you casually pile implausibility on top of implausibility; now we are supposed to imagine that Hannibal Lecter created his fully populated torture chamber solar system all by himself, with no subcontractors or anything else that might leave a trace.