Comment Watch where you point that thing... (Score 1) 405
You could put somebody's eye out!!!
Seriously, you point low density microwave (maser) emitters from the moon to earth... you use a BIG antenna here to pick up the energy, and you make sure the maser is aimed at unpopulated areas (though the critter should be detuned for resonant frequencies of important stuff like water, protein, myelin, cellulose, stuff like that.)
With the maser detuned for living stuff, it would be of relatively little consequence to living critters. Since microwave get's through the atmosphere better than most light frequencies, you can convert all that light into microwave, and you lose relatively little in the trasmission. Much better than trying to shoot high intensity laser to earth.
By the way... anybody who wants to build an asteroid blaster on the side of the moon facing earth... is not your friend. Explain to this person (with a large blunt instrument) that high energy beam weapons pointed earthward make really poor sense. I can almost see the generals getting wood at the thought...
By the way... anybody got an idea how to stop GW from building a half trillion dollar missile shield that almost certainly won't work (and that would be the good news.) That if successful would completely destabalize the world nuclear balance, almost certainly begin a new arms race, and almost certainly cause four and five star idiots drooling over the big red button the mistaken belief that tactical nukes could be a viable tool in enforcing American opinions on the world?!!! Somebody just needs to have a talk with that boy!!!
Seriously, you point low density microwave (maser) emitters from the moon to earth... you use a BIG antenna here to pick up the energy, and you make sure the maser is aimed at unpopulated areas (though the critter should be detuned for resonant frequencies of important stuff like water, protein, myelin, cellulose, stuff like that.)
With the maser detuned for living stuff, it would be of relatively little consequence to living critters. Since microwave get's through the atmosphere better than most light frequencies, you can convert all that light into microwave, and you lose relatively little in the trasmission. Much better than trying to shoot high intensity laser to earth.
By the way... anybody who wants to build an asteroid blaster on the side of the moon facing earth... is not your friend. Explain to this person (with a large blunt instrument) that high energy beam weapons pointed earthward make really poor sense. I can almost see the generals getting wood at the thought...
By the way... anybody got an idea how to stop GW from building a half trillion dollar missile shield that almost certainly won't work (and that would be the good news.) That if successful would completely destabalize the world nuclear balance, almost certainly begin a new arms race, and almost certainly cause four and five star idiots drooling over the big red button the mistaken belief that tactical nukes could be a viable tool in enforcing American opinions on the world?!!! Somebody just needs to have a talk with that boy!!!
