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From: jimp on 27 Jan 2010 14:04
In sci.physics Bret Cahill <Bret_E_Cahill(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Shine a 4 milliwatt 645 nm wavelength dollar store pet laser onto a
> red reflector lens at night and it explodes into color.
>
> Slender reflective fibers would easily reflect a relatively low power
> satellite based laser a couple hundred miles back to the satellite and
> show up on satellite imaging. A very weak magnet on each fiber could
> orient the fibers in specified directions with respect to the earth's
> magnitic field it the time it would take to fall hundreds or thousands
> of feet from a plane.

Wind and aerodynamics are much stronger forces than the Earth's magnetic
field.


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Jim Pennino

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From: Bret Cahill on 27 Jan 2010 22:25
> > Shine a 4 milliwatt 645 nm wavelength dollar store pet laser onto a
> > red reflector lens at night and it explodes into color.
>
> > Slender reflective fibers would easily reflect a relatively low power
> > satellite based laser a couple hundred miles back to the satellite and
> > show up on satellite imaging.  A very weak magnet on each fiber could
> > orient the fibers in specified directions with respect to the earth's
> > magnitic field it the time it would take to fall hundreds or thousands
> > of feet from a plane.
>
> Wind and aerodynamics are much stronger forces than the Earth's magnetic
> field.

And?


Bret Cahill

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