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Lunar Lasers
Two different articles about building lasers (well, lasers and a maser perhaps) on the moon. Reuters has a story about a potential lunar power plant, creating electricity with solar panels and beaming it to Earth with microwaves. Space.com has a piece about building a sort of super-sized Star Wars program on the Moon, giant lasers set up to blast incoming space debris and not, of course, anyone here on Earth.
i saw this in highlander 2 i think. it didn't work out too good.
your jesus is another mans xebu. chew on that hypocrites.
...a strange social experiment by the /. team to see how many people will come up with the same joke in a given period of time?
Hmmm...
How you see the world is how the world sees you.
Yeah, only jocks discuss lasers on the moon. Us nerds should stick to talking about football and women and beer.
(insert finger-quotes here)
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Yes, he's hoping to cut production costs for the third episode. He's thinking that we can just use the sun, instead of those tiny litle models, as Chubacca always tends to crush the model before they finish the scenes...
Um, this is my sig.
*cough* ripoff *cough*
Maybe one day we'll be able to illuminate the earth by pointing the moon this way!
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The project is receiving unexpected economical support from this organization.
CHA!
They think power lines are bad? I can just imagine the cancer cluster surrounding the receiving station.
As far as cooking the earth, I'm not suggesting that it would burn the whole planet, but think about the starving families we could feed by pointing it in the middle of the ocean and boiling up a whole bunch of seafood. Send a couple boats out there to skim the surface after its done, then just pack on ice with cocktail or tartar sauce.
-- Button up, your ignorance is showing
A trillion dollars? Easy! Fund it by selling ad space on the moon to the highest bidder. For example, if it were McDonald's, draw a big golden arch on the moon with laser. Every night when people look up the sky, they will feel like eating hamburger.
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Since the Lunar power Station came online...
Aluminum Hats a no longer for wackos
Check out those Northern Lights (in Florida)
Forget four poster bed sleep in a faraday cage
Metal Orthadonics fall out of favor
Peeps rise up from their cellophane prisons and attack their masters
Floresencet Lights no longer need to be connected to the power grid
Just because we can does not make it a good idea.
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
Oh, I just realized how US-centric my post is. For everybody out there with a world map instead of a US map, 40000 square miles is about the size of Montenegro.
I read the internet for the articles.