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Anonymous
>>272116 First of all, you see it 10 seconds in the past, thus you have to aim 20 seconds ahead.
Second of all it is 10 light minutes away, hence 20 minutes ahead of shot (If shot it traveling at "c".
Third of all, you are quite clearly assuming that the target is moving in a linear path, ie constant velocity in a straight line, that it's not accelerating (Or accelerating at a constant rate), that it has no objects to manuvere around, and that there aren't going to be any objects between you and the target 20 minutes in the future.
And that's all before you take into count deflections. To hit the target, your actual shot would have to be like (Target velocity dependant) as wide as targets Maximum possible distance covered in 20mins as the radius for the circle of your shot.
Hitting something 10 light minutes away is nigh on impossible.
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