RE: Reaching for the stars, finally - will the young ones among us get pics of Alpha C.?
April 13, 2016 at 6:00 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2016 at 6:02 am by SteelCurtain.)
I'm assuming the laser source would be at like L2 or L1, or even multiple sources launched intermittently to different solar orbits. The problem is going to be power, it'd likely have to be nuclear if we're pushing that much wattage, right?
I wonder what the beam width would have to be, and how much attenuation would result over those distances?
ETA: there's no way we would have an array of lasers on earth's surface, right?
I wonder what the beam width would have to be, and how much attenuation would result over those distances?
ETA: there's no way we would have an array of lasers on earth's surface, right?
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