[geeks] Starshine 3

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:37:58PM -0500, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> 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?
> > 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.

I seems to me that bouncing strong lasers off of satellites that are for 
imaging work with large mirrors is going to damage some of the imaging sensors.

Maybe my mind is in the gutter.

Mainly, if I can't discuss bad things to do to annoying web sites, I don't 
want others to have any fun either. ;)  Sigh.

I'll just STFU now.  Go back to your lasering of satallites.  I'll go back to
my GL code.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd