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.

Comments

"And we shall call it the 'Alan Parson's Project'"

[scorp1us]

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

My editor shitlist

[Chris Burke]

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.

Re:all I wanted was a frickin "Laser"

[Chris Burke]

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. :)