Lasers and telescopes!

[Grimfilth]

Because the astroids game never gets old! Lasers could be usefull to push astroids out of their current trajectory, even if it's slow. And for the sake of science, it could be used for spectrophotometry as well, because we all want to know what a Kerbal consists of. Or, we could create a Death Star with it, ofcourse.

And a steady income of science would be welcome. Due to their big heads, Kerbals can't look up and take a look at the sky. That's why we need a few telescopes up in space, to send pretty pictures back! Or smaller photographic devices, which we can take pictures of planets and stuff, for good looking mouse pads or coffee mugs for those office cubical Kerbals.

[DoctorCruz]

Because the astroids game never gets old! Lasers could be usefull to push astroids out of their current trajectory, even if it's slow. And for the sake of science, it could be used for spectrophotometry as well, because we all want to know what a Kerbal consists of. Or, we could create a Death Star with it, ofcourse.

And a steady income of science would be welcome. Due to their big heads, Kerbals can't look up and take a look at the sky. That's why we need a few telescopes up in space, to send pretty pictures back! Or smaller photographic devices, which we can take pictures of planets and stuff, for good looking mouse pads or coffee mugs for those office cubical Kerbals.

Hmm, interesting idea

[Red Iron Crown]

How realistic is it to redirect an asteroid with a laser? I haven't done the math, but intuitively it seems like any laser powerful enough to impart a significant acceleration would just ablate the asteroid away anyway.

[BudgetHedgehog]

There's plenty of camera and telescope mods out there - Hullcam, CactEye, Distant Object Enhancement (to make telescopes actually see things)...

[Alex_Leonardo]

http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2943

This real life system could actually propel a spacecraft to the speed of light.