> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 08:24:00 -0300
> Subject: Re: For David Brin and the rest of you
> From: albm...@centroin.com.br
> To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
>
> David Hobby wrote:
> >
> > Or are you worried about energy being beamed down inefficiently, producing
> > much more heat than just the amount from people using energy directly?
> >
> No, even if it was possible to beam energy with 100% efficiency...
> it's still energy. It comes down, it must get out. If not, Earth gets
> cooked.
>
> Hell on Earth, the nightmare of science fiction, brought to us by
> those that try to save the planet. Isn't this the scenario of some
> cheap sci-fi, where the Mad Scientist tries to destroy the Earth by
> placing an enormous mirror or lens in orbit, concentrating solar
> energy?
>
> Just we don't need mirror or lens, place a lot of death ray
> satellites. Sorry, power satellites.
>
> Alberto Monteiro
>
And of course, anything that can be that easily weaponized, will be. Remember
Heinlein's Loonies winning their independence by throwing rocks at the mother
world?
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