thragtacular

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  • I do astrophotography, dingus. I’m well aware such mounts exist. I’m also aware of NASA’s history of shooting lasers at the moon to track changes in its distance.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiments

    Have a look at that table. See all those specific wavelengths? If your dumbass idea is even remotely feasible then every single photographic satellite in orbit will ABSOLUTELY have filters that will carve out those narrow bands and others that could be realistically used to damage a camera. Lasers operate at specific wavelengths.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laser_types

    I do, however, doubt that any satellite has this type of filtration because this idea is inherently stupid. Say you do somehow manage this. Guess what? You’ve put a few pixels out of commission. What happens then? It’s pretty fuckin’ simple. The satellite moves slightly and another picture gets taken with the obscured area now in view.

    Because that’s how satellite imaging works.

    If you laser is powerful, accurate, and fast tracking enough to destroy an entire imaging sensor from 400km away you’re better off just using it to ransom passing aircraft.

    Which is just as stupid.






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    9 months ago

    Almost all cultures disappear within a century or two. Do you think Canada is anything like it was 200 years ago? Shit, it’s probably not even what it was like 50 years ago.

    45 years ago the US overwhelmingly voted Reagan into office. That asscunt would get so fucking rejected in primaries now for being a “RINO” based on his gun control policies alone. Things change. Everything changes. When I was a kid it was totally fine to run around with a Southern Loser Flag on your shirt. Should that culture return? Some people think so.

    You can either be a troglodytic conservative dingus or you can contribute to the new culture and a better tomorrow.


  • “Why do people choose to live under bridges wherever they want instead of in one giant communal room where they have a cot they can be raped on when they try to sleep?”

    It’s spelled accommodation. For someone that supposedly graduated college you’d think you’d know that.

    “THEY” don’t refuse anything. Some people do.

    Not that you give a shit. You just regurgitate whatever your asshole uncle tells you to without thinking.

    Fuck back off to posting Fox News articles in your conservative circlejerk hut and stay there, shitbag. No real human wants to interact with you cunts.




  • Honey, the REAL question you’re going to have to answer is how the fuck you’re going to target an object around the size of your face from 400km away while it’s moving at thousands of miles per hour. Not only THAT, you also have to shoot it within a very narrow angle to ensure the power of the laser hits the sensor directly. Not only THAT THAT, but you also have to be completely certain the camera doesn’t have some sort of aperture that’s closed whenever you’re FIRIN YUR LAZOR.

    So if you have inside information about the exact times that the aperture will be open, the exact angle it will be photographing at, precisely what trajectory it’s on and where it’s going (this one’s actually easy, most space objects are tracked rather precisely and publicly), then maybe… MAYBE, IF YOU CAN TRACK IT, you’ll get off a zap or two.

    And even then it would only work as long as the internal filters aren’t designed to block common laser wavelengths. They’re probably not, because everything else is so astonishingly stupid that it’s not going to happen.