Radio Waves Employed in Space Construction

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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Why don't they just fill up a 50 meter long enclosed structure here on Earth with money, and burn the building down. It would cost the same and give similar results. I say send the rubble cloud on a trajectroy course for the sun, and let it burn up in a few years when it gets there.

If the scientists jsut wanna have fun, they could put sensors in the rubble cloud and watch the toilet bowl effect as is starts it's deteriorating semi-orbit around the sun before it bursts into an inferno.