Troll. Everyone knows photons do not have the momentum to push moving metal statues.

PLEEEEASE tell me you're trolling. I can't fathom this level of stupidity.

Gee who to trust? someone on the internet or NASA?

http://www.space.com/10658-laser-rocket-propulsion-technology.html

But photons do have MOMENTUM.
The amount of MOMENTUM is only limited by available power from the laser source.

If we can right now use lasers to slow down atoms from speeds of thousands of miles per hour to inches per hour than what about technology 30, 000 years into the future??

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/laser-97b.html

Oh wait thats 1997 thats about some savages using caveman technology to launch metal vehicles

I'm not saying they don't have momentum, I'm saying they don't have THE momentum.

Ion drive works similarly to what you want, but only in space, where opposing forces are almost non-existent. The Solar Sail concept is based off of using Photon momentum to perpetuate spacecraft, but they need Very very large surface area and minimal mass, and lack of opposing forces. On a planet, no such momentum could be achieved without substantial, and I mean substantial amounts of energy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10682693

Notice how this extremely high-powered laser (about the same as an Amarr Laser Rifle) does not push its target.

While it is true that the extremely tiny virtual mass of photons travelling en masse at the speed of light exerts a small, but measureable amount of force, the amount of light necessary to move significant mass is mind-boggling. The lasers that NASA talks about using to move spacecraft are either: a) stadium-sized; or, b) moving things in microgravity with a very long travel time.

Furthermore, if the Laser Rifle pushed with enough force to move a dropclone- it would be pushing in both directions, i.e.- the LR would have "kick". Even if the user wore a Heavy dropsuit, the device itself would be wholly unwieldy. Instead of pulses of kick, the LR would drive backwards and up constantly.

If you have ever seen someone holding a fire hose- yeah it would look like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHXve23fCZw

Nothing moving via laser in normal Earth gravity??
Hmmmm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAdj6vpYppA

The lasers that NASA talks about using to move spacecraft are either: a) stadium-sized; or, b) moving things in microgravity with a very long travel time.

Wait, all that does is support Ulysses, that thing operates via plasma, inducted by laser, not by lasers itself...

EDIT: Thanks for these links, they're fairly interesting.

I do not think you can comprehend how effective the laser push is.
SOLAR SAIL:
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A typical spacecraft going to Mars, for example, will be displaced by more than 1,000-ákm by solar pressure, so the effects must
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Solar Sail