Solar-pumped laser power transmission, a way to dramatically decrease launch costs?
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From: William Mook on 1 Mar 2010 17:01 On Mar 1, 4:13 pm, Damien Valentine <valen...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > So let's recap (since there's an awful lot of quoting being thrown > around). Mr. Mook mentioned a "superlaser", No, someone else mentioned superlaser, I asked what it was, and was told it was a device from Star Wars. > which is a device from > the "Star Wars" franchise. Yes, whereupon I observed it was a fictional device. > Someone criticized this plan, since it relies on a device that doesn't > exist. No, Freddie said so was my plan. At which point I said my stuff wasn't fictional in the same sense as the Star War laser. > Mr. Mook claimed that "none of my stuff is fictional", > implying either that when he says "superlaser", he doesn't actually > mean a device like the example he gave... I didn't bring up superlaser. I spoke of using solar pumped free electron lasers to efficiently beam energy to where its desired. > or else that he has a fully > armed and operational battle station in his attic. Not at all. There is a difference between something that is designed based upon sound engineering principles and a thing that is a device to advance a plot in a science fiction movie. > Then Misters Mook and McCall just started repeating their points over > and over again, with Mr. Mook curiously insisting that since he's not > writing a novel, his plan does not rely on "fictional" devices...and > then claiming that his opponents are either stupid or "evil". No, Freddie has a sig at the end of some of his posts where he quotes Socrates saying that falsehoods are evil. I pointed out that according to Freddie's sigs his efforts to mischaracterize what I have written as fiction is evil on that basis. > Have I got this right? Nearly so.
From: Pat Flannery on 1 Mar 2010 22:01 On 3/1/2010 1:13 PM, Damien Valentine wrote: > > Someone criticized this plan, since it relies on a device that doesn't > exist. Mr. Mook claimed that "none of my stuff is fictional", > implying either that when he says "superlaser", he doesn't actually > mean a device like the example he gave...or else that he has a fully > armed and operational battle station in his attic. > > Then Misters Mook and McCall just started repeating their points over > and over again, with Mr. Mook curiously insisting that since he's not > writing a novel, his plan does not rely on "fictional" devices...and > then claiming that his opponents are either stupid or "evil". > > Have I got this right? All except what happens to the Ewoks in the end: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html Pat
From: Greg D. Moore (Strider) on 2 Mar 2010 13:57 Fred J. McCall wrote: > Pat Flannery <flanner(a)daktel.com> wrote: > > I am your father, Pat... Well there goes MY lunch. :-) -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.
From: Damien Valentine on 2 Mar 2010 17:20 On Mar 1, 4:01 pm, William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > No, someone else mentioned superlaser, I asked what it was, and was > told it was a device from Star Wars. Ah, I see -- backtracking through a couple pages of argument. That might be part of the problem; nobody understands what anybody else is saying, because nobody can keep track of 100+ post threads. My apologies!
From: Damien Valentine on 2 Mar 2010 17:28
On Mar 2, 7:38 am, Fred J. McCall <fjmcc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am your father, Pat... "And Princess Leia is your sister! And the Empire will be defeated by Ewoks! And as a child, I built C3PO!" |