To: Red Badger
2 posted on
07/23/2015 12:13:13 PM PDT by
Fido969
To: Red Badger
Nikola Tesla is smiling. Perhaps this is one application of R4th and payload weight that might be feasible.
4 posted on
07/23/2015 12:15:23 PM PDT by
Gaffer
To: Red Badger
It’s a tight focusing problem. How few MOA (moments of arc) is a spacecraft at altitude?
Would the beam have to be coherent?
To: Red Badger
And we thought birds flying into windmills was a hazard.
9 posted on
07/23/2015 12:30:08 PM PDT by
Demiurge2
(Define your terms!)
To: Red Badger
How is that anti-gravity machine coming? Haven’t heard much lately. :-) Oh, and that cold fusion thingie too.
10 posted on
07/23/2015 12:30:46 PM PDT by
mc5cents
(Pray for America)
To: Red Badger
I have been following this company for a while now. It looks possible to me. They claim that if it works, they can get to orbit cheaper than Spacex’s reusable rockets.
To: Red Badger
Be sure to pack plenty of popcorn to eat on the trip ...
15 posted on
07/23/2015 12:46:58 PM PDT by
BlueLancer
(Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.)
To: Red Badger
Just put a windmill on that thing and make it self-powered!
19 posted on
07/23/2015 1:09:17 PM PDT by
JJ_Folderol
(Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
To: Red Badger
Dumb idea. Radiation drops off as to the square of the distance.
Organisms in the path of the invisible radiation will receive radiation.
If ground-based it will have to be turned off for around 14 hours daily.
Tracking it with the signal round-trip delay time, times two, will be critical and difficult. Providing a means to turn it off if some other object gets in the path of the radiation sounds good, but isn’t-it can not be shut off quickly due to the delay time. More? no, that’s enough.
20 posted on
07/23/2015 1:10:11 PM PDT by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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Also, microwaves would not propel the spacecraft in this proposal. Saying so is dumb, since the article clearly states otherwise.
22 posted on
07/23/2015 1:13:20 PM PDT by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
To: Red Badger
Orbital salvage will make me a multi-billionaire, as soon as I figure out how to do it.
24 posted on
07/23/2015 1:16:05 PM PDT by
onedoug
To: Red Badger
Ah.. The "Electric Cannon"
25 posted on
07/23/2015 1:29:05 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Red Badger
What's our speed Mr. Scott?
We're really cooking Captain!
27 posted on
07/23/2015 1:35:14 PM PDT by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: Red Badger
If the idea pans out, the cost savings for sending satellites (or perhaps humans) into orbit could be considerable. 
"Or perhaps missles. HOT DIGGETY DOG!"
To: Red Badger
In a related report, Men in a 10 mile square radius of the Microwave, claim they are no longer able to father children, as their testicles now look like sun dried raisins.
:)
29 posted on
07/23/2015 3:54:03 PM PDT by
rikkir
(Anyone still believe the 8/08 Atlantic cover wasn't 100% accurate?)
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