<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Thank you Adrian. Now does the same logic apply to that gear being in orbit? I can see the difficulty of aiming from the Moon. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 5:09 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 2:50 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Educate the ignorant here, please? Isn't it true that the beaming you are talking about can be used as weapons with a little change of direction?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not so much. You would need to focus the beam further as well. Current tech can focus well enough for wireless transmission to a relatively large antenna on the ground, but for a weapon you would need much tighter focus, unless you want to raze cities or similar (for which nuclear weapons work better - and the nations which have a realistic shot at developing space-based solar power already have nuclear weapons). </div></div></div>
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