That will be like a giant laser with temperatures of many thousands of degrees beaming down on some place on earth. There are reasons to be scared if something goes wrong…
It can be used as a weapon even!
Scorching all the land and people, making forest fires etc… Making tanks self ignite etc…
Like burning ants with a mirror lens. Better weapon than atomic bomb.
Edit: looks like it will be microwaves tho in case of that ESA installation, so probably something a bit safer.
Yes, I’ve made some back-of-envelope calculations and since they talk about 2 gigawatts received over an antenna area of 10 km wide, assuming it’s a circle, that’s about 25 watts per square meter (or, 250 mW/cm2). The Sun averages some 1000 watts per square meter so there’s a wide margin to compensate for conversion loss and still keep a generally low irradiation.
OTOH, building an antenna 10 km wide probably will only be practical on the sea or a desert… but so far SOLARIS is just about studying the tehnicalities and maybe start working on a technology demonstrator with the budget of year 2025, if funds are allocated.
Anyway ti’s a bit crazy that they’re even considering it as a possibility…
Culture is a beetch… in Spanish, one of the vulgar meanings of the verb “cantar” (to sing) is “to stink”: “tus pies cantan, tío” (dude, your feet stink).
So in Spanish a “vagina que canta” (“singing vagina”) could also be understood as a stinky vagina.
And this is how I am 100% positive that the artist doesn’t speaks Spanish…
wow, Unreal Tournament… I played a hell out of it (always offline)… I remember the battles on the top of a skyscrapper reaching low orbit… and a map in some kind of spaceship…
Apparently they’re discussing using some of their remotely operated robots to kill suspects; FAI their bomb deactivation robots are capable of firing a blank shotgun shell to shoot a supersonic blast of water to destroy key elements of a bomb… but the same device could also fire a live shell on a suspect.
The gray spires are opaque dust. The orange glow around the top is dust not too thick we can partially see through. The orange blobs all over the place are new stars, most of them no more than a few hundred thousand years old.
We couldn’t see anything here with our eyes, everything is too faint and these images mix several wavelengths of infrarred light.
Yet everything is real. It’s out there, or at least it was 6,500 years ago when the light from these objects began its journey in our direction.
" If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace." - Steve Martin