From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 17:47:48 MST
Ken Meyering wrote:
>I said "THOR", I meant "THEL". Yes, it's a line of site laser, yet can
>be space based. Check your calendar, is the moon visible from
>your location? Imagine a few hundred of these on the moon!
This still leaves the question as to whether the correct SIDE of the moon
is visible from that location. Well, I guess with a few hundred of them
you'd be fine, but I somehow doubt these things are all that cheap. :)
Not to mention the fact that setting up such a system might well be
regarded as an act of war against all countries everywhere on earth, etc.
-Dan
-GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH-
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