Why not? There’s a bunch of applications where that is a requirement.
The Lunar Laser Ranging experiments are a fun one, I think. Scientists shoot lasers at mirrors placed in the moon and measure the trip time of light to calculate the distance of the moon to the millimetre.
However:
Out of a pulse of 3×10E17 photons aimed at the reflector, only about 1–5 are received back on Earth, even under good conditions.
A mirror doesn’t generate its own light either, but would you try shooting a weapons grade laser into one and pointing it at one of your eye sockets?
Also the Earth would probably be pulled apart under the gravity of all those moons, which will likely solve many of the present day issues so let’s not rule that out as an option is all I’m saying.
Judging by the backlash I saw online on that butter recall because of the missing “contains milk” statement, it seems like few will miss the regulations.
In the long run, looser regulations could prove to be a Darwinian solution to most current issues.
That was a wild rabbit hole…
The Beagues paid 15 cents for [their infant son’s] stamps and an unknown amount to insure him for $50, then handed him over to the mailman, who dropped the boy off at his grandmother’s house about a mile away.
TIL thanks
Wow how did they get this photo of a moving subject in a camera from the 30’s. I’m impressed
Gotta appreciate the level of commitment on this commit…
Awww what a heartwarming story.
Oh! This is a Bilbo right? I need to read the books again, been too long
This.
Also, tie together more countries’ power grids to even out production and demand of renewables, and reduce the need for other backup sources.
For a fraction of the cost of nuclear, increase the storage capacity as well. We’ve had days where the price per MWh was negative in many hours, because of excess production.
The barriers to carbon free energy aren’t technical, they’re purely political.
That’s the fun of out of context comics. This one doesn’t state that the goal is to replace the sun, but to equal its brightness.
Suppose batman has a new sun-powered gadget, except well he’s Batman so it needs to work at night. But he’d need 455000 moons to pull that off, and yet he does it somehow.
I’d read that comic…