Atta nation, Japan!

[DEATHMASTER]

It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091108/sc_afp/japanspaceenergysolartechnology_20091108051448

Sounds good, rofl'd at last sentence of the article.

 

[Headcrab Pie]

Is that picture to the left a scale model?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Well obviously.

 

[Sloth]

The Japanese seem to be doing quite a bit of the more high end research into space, they also lead the race with the space elevator.

 

[Warped]

image a space elevator disaster with every man woman and child cleaning up metallic tape off their front yard....i think it would be priceless!

 

[[Dragoon]]

The Japanese seem to be doing quite a bit of the more high end research into space, they also lead the race with the space elevator.

Glad someone's doing it. The US government seems to have lost interest in it for the most part.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

image a space elevator disaster with every man woman and child cleaning up metallic tape off their front yard....i think it would be priceless!

Watch 12:00 +, effects of a purging orbital elevator.
Warning to animephobes: it's gundam
http://gundam00dubbed.webs.com/apps...-gundam-00-season-2-episode-17-english-dubbed

****ing bigass tape yo.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I hate the idea of pointing super-powered microwave beams at the earth. What if there is a malfunction and it points a few degrees off; it could cook a whole field of cows.


Hmm...

 

[kupocake]

Gundam is the reason Japan care about space after all. Shame basically every series is actually rubbish.

 

[lord_raken]

I hate the idea of pointing super-powered microwave beams at the earth. What if there is a malfunction and it points a few degrees off; it could cook a whole field of cows.


Hmm...

Or worse. A city.

But imagine a field of cows already cooked to perfection... YUM!

 

[MJ12]

I hate the idea of pointing super-powered microwave beams at the earth. What if there is a malfunction and it points a few degrees off; it could cook a whole field of cows.


Mmm...

fixed

 

[Kadayi]

I hate the idea of pointing super-powered microwave beams at the earth. What if there is a malfunction and it points a few degrees off; it could cook a whole field of cows.


Hmm...

More likely they'd use it to boil some Dolphins & whales

*Imagines scene in first Japanese space station as they fire up the microwave cannon over the mid atlantic

"**** you Whale!!!"
"**** you Dolphin!!!"

 

[Headcrab Pie]

More likely they'd use it to fry some Chickens & Cows

*Imagines scene in first Japanese space station as they fire up the microwave cannon over farms

"**** you Chicken!!!"
"**** you Cow!!!"

Fixed.

 

[15357]

I need to get there and sabotage some shit.

 

[Maestro]

****...George Friedman was right!

The Next 100 Years: read it.

 

[Ennui]

I've been harping on this idea to any of my friends who would listen for years now. Very cool to see this slowly becoming a reality, even if these are the very first baby steps...

 

[Maestro]

I think the technology for such equipment like the high-durability solar cells, regulatory electronics, and other various things haven't really coalesced until recently.

As to frying fields of cows...doubtful. Geosynchronous orbit as well as regulatory measures make it unlikely at the very least, even if someone hacked it with malicious intent the beam will be a meter wide at most, and more likely measured in centimeters of diameter. Diffuse microwave transmission doesn't make any sense, MASER is vastly more efficient.

 

[Darkside55]

Gundam is the reason Japan care about space after all. Shame basically every series is actually rubbish.

Oh you son of a bitch.



Also the space elevators in Gundam? Solar-powered.