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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.
You idiot! Alan Parson's project was a progressive rock band from 1982.
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
So... how long before the word "CHA" appears on the moon. A la The Tick.
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
In the series Gundam X, there's a certain mech, the GX-9900, which has a satellite link to a solar power station on the moon which refracts microwave down to the mech to make big kerplowie boom boom destruction.
--BWalint
Michael, Jamie, and Roblimo are all jerks, though of the three evils I think Jamie is the least. Specificaly Michael for censorware.org, and Roblimo for posting his inflamatory opinions on the front page of /. and then disabling comments. Those two guys are real assholes.
Taco, Hemos, and CowboyNeal are alright by me. They're big geeks that post like big geeks, and that's why I read this site.
The enemies of Democracy are
Not that I care, since I never wanted to be at 50 karma anyway. It's just the fact that if you post at /. enough, and don't post like an asshole, you'll get to 50 in short order.
/. editors Michael and Roblimo are assholes. That should get me some "-1 Redundant" mods, since everyone already knew that. :)
To regain that non-existant thrill of gaining karma, though, i'll have to lose some. So, in the interest of losing karma, I will now say that
The enemies of Democracy are
All your giant lunar laser power plant are belong to us!!