On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Craig Berry <cdberry@gmail.com> wrote:

In space, if you accelerate laterally in a random direction hard enough to move your actual position one ship width from your predicted position based on data two light trip times ago, a laser shot at you will miss, barring a very lucky guess by the firing ship.

Thus explaining the popularity of triple-mount (or in Star Wars quad-mount) turrets: each emitter is aimed slightly off-center, so as to bracket the predicted position.

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