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Radio Waves Employed in Space Construction

Posted by Hemos on

CDeity writes "Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology claim that radio waves could be used to shape and fuse debris in space to form massive structures according to this article. Scientists have in the past employed sound and light waves to position small particles, and every expectation indicates these techniques could work on a large scale. One engineer estimates " it would take approximately one hour to form a rubble cloud into a 50-meter long enclosed structure.""

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  1. Obligatory Post by CatWrangler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imagine a beowolf of these things... Damn. On topic too.

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  2. Re:First Post! by unicron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd like to give a shout out to all my sci-fi peeps.

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    Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.