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Lunar Lasers

Posted by michael on from the keep-your-laser-handy dept.

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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  1. We'll just call this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the Alan Parson's Project...

  2. And they should call it... by kmcardle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...The Alan Parsons Project!

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  3. my first poster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    posters are cool. i have a radiohead poster. it was my first poster. hee hee hee. :)

  4. "And we shall call it the 'Alan Parson's Project'" by scorp1us · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You idiot! Alan Parson's project was a progressive rock band from 1982.

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  5. Re:all I wanted was a frickin "Laser" by MindStalker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, you can get way over 50, its just that 50 is the max it will display. If you get to 50 and then get 20 post modded up, you can then later get 20 post modded down before you risk loosing points. The karma is there, you just don't know it! :)

  6. Re:page widening post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pathetic, you dumb fuck. truly pathetic.

  7. Chairfaced Chipandale by steveo777 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So... how long before the word "CHA" appears on the moon. A la The Tick.

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  8. Reminds me a lot of an anime by BWalint · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  10. My editor shitlist by Chris+Burke · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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  11. Re:all I wanted was a frickin "Laser" by Chris+Burke · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

    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 /. editors Michael and Roblimo are assholes. That should get me some "-1 Redundant" mods, since everyone already knew that. :)

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  12. all your... by doooras · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your giant lunar laser power plant are belong to us!!