[geeks] Starshine 3

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Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > > What would be the chances of "catching" the bird
> > > with a laser and some amateur coordinates. It orbits at about 472km.
> > Mighty fscking slim without tracking equipment. Wouldn't be hard to
> > build the tracking system if we had the wherewithal. It's sort of
> > actually what I went to school for (mech eng + applied physics =
> > aerospace design). If you've got spare $$$ floating around, we could do
> > it.
> 
> Sigh.  What was the recently posted list policy about discussing terrorism?  I
> seem to remeber hearing something after the (j/k) bombing /. thread.


I've left the above uncut on purpose. Can you show me where in there
either Mr Fogg or myself says we want to bring the satellite crashing
down? He wants to reflect a light beam off of a reflective thing flying
around the Earth. Call me foolish, but I don't see any way in which that
can be construed as terrorism.


---sambo