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.

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Re:Why bother?

[Anonymous Coward]

And why is this news for nerds?

Yeah, only jocks discuss lasers on the moon. Us nerds should stick to talking about football and women and beer.