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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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  2. Re:all I wanted was a frickin "Laser" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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