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I thought about retiring at precisely 25k posts but you've made me reply to you to confirm I am indeed alive and now that means another 4999 posts at least, well done Keith.

Remember when one of our former members made the final table at the WSOP? And he turned up in a suit looking like a gangsta? Those were the days.

Trump is down 3m votes compared to 15m for Dems, with lots of votes still to be counted towards popular vote tally. This is based on the info and graphs I'm seeing all over Twitter. Obviously I can't...

Any footage of blue haired feminists screaming at the sky this time?

Twitter is hilarious. People wondering why Dems got 15 million less votes than 2020. Not only are they refusing to consider...

This is a rather dramatic transition. We've skipped a dimension! At some point in between, surely inverse cube is a better approximation. If not, does that mean there is an abrupt change from 4th to...

Ok so what if we send a very-high energy pulse of light first, to hopefully create a very brief vacuum channel through the atmosphere, then send the main beam through that channel before it...

I guess knowing fundamentally what scattering is would be helpful. In layman's terms we think of it as light deflecting off particles. But that isn't really how light works. A photon hits a particle,...

Inverse 4th power is nuts. I can't comprehend a geometric reason why this would be the case. Inverse square is geometrically logical, it's a mathematical description of an expanding sphere. But...

Economics isn't just about how much it costs now. It's how much it costs in the future too. The sooner we get up into space and doing this kind of thing, the faster we learn how to do it better. It...

Alright, if you heat water using the beam, or some other liquid like an oil, and have near perfect insulation and heat recovery, then the plasma stream might not be a problem. We might be back in...

Space-based solar power is likely to be the distant future of energy, but I'm not sure about beaming it back to Earth. I doubt we'd cause tornados, but plasma streams seem like a very real risk. A...

Hmmm nah. Let's assume it creates a near-vacuum... this is ridiculously intense low pressure in the atmosphere and will result in a vortex of wind to circulate around the beam. We're basically...

Maybe a laser can "burn" through the atmosphere, creating a near-vacuum channel, or at least a linear flow of plasma, minimising scattering.

Maybe we can theoretically eliminate losses and...

Good point about a laser not having the play by the inverse square rule.



I'd argue this probably isn't true. Even if we can angle the receiver perpendicular to the beam (also good point),...

That's based on one being in the most extremely low orbit we can have. Might be a bit too dangerous having a solar light beam generator in an orbit with relatively large friction.

Let's be more...

A light beam in geostationary orbit would need to be around 50000 times more concentrated a beam compared to one in very low orbit in order to have the same footprint on earth.

Inverse square law...

Geostationary orbits only exist above the equator, too. That means that if you're beaming to a location that isn't on the equator, then it will inherently need to be done at an angle. The greater the...

You'd think, but geostationary orbits are a long way out. That inverse square law is going to be a right bastard at such a distance. In the technology's infancy, we'll be doing well to just get a few...

The idea that Jews want to replace white people with Muslims is an absurd theory, too. Jews are white, and I would imagine that the last thing these supposed Jewish overlords want it more Islam.
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The very fact that Iran fired ICBMs at Israel is direct proof that Israel does not have a space laser programme, if you needed any. You could argue that Iran weren't aware of Israel's incredible...

I've just read her rant about Jewish laser beams, a term she sadly doesn't use herself.

She starts off suggesting that the wildfires were deliberate to boost stock prices and to clear land for a...

If Jewish space lasers are a thing then Iran must be really fucking stupid taking on such a power. Maybe that's what the wait is for Israel's retaliation... they're preparing the space laser, which...

This woman is incredible. She must be a world class troll. Nobody can really be this stupid.

On hurricanes - "Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t...

I also presume we share common ground. I would hope we all agree that both Palestine and Israel have the right to exist in peace. I feel the debate about whether Israel should have been created is a...

Like I say, it's a weird public debate where people seem to find themselves hardcore supporting one bunch of genocidal maniacs or the other.

I'm presuming you don't condone what Hamas did. Please...