10 mile beam of light hitting something as small like a grain of rice is pretty damn impressive.
But it seems this system isn’t resilient against adverse weather like fog.
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144 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 7 Sep
This is cool. I knew they were using microwaves but figured they weren't using shorter wavelengths for good reason. It sounds like physical interference is the main reason. If you can make them cheap enough and have redundancies that might not matter. Or if you can put them on some kind of autonomous drone, always seeking line of sight, it might not matter.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB OP 22h
Never thought about that
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88 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 22h
It sounds like just the right amount of science fiction to be possible
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