A note which is only tenuously connected, but I wanted to get it out there:
I've noticed it mentioned a time or two recently about schemes to put solar power satellites in orbit, which would then beam the power down to Earth using microwaves. Some conspiracy theorists then immediately flipped out (of course) and claimed this was all a scheme to put the zap on us.
Well, as a circumspect thinker, I can't claim to know that they do not want to put the zap on us from space, but all I want to point out is that they've been talking about this for half a century: Space-based solar power
Various SBSP proposals have been researched since the early 1970s,
In any case, my only point is that it may be a Bond-villain plot by Gates and Schwab to kill us all, but it's not a new plot.
I used to get so excited reading about solar-power satellites. These structures were going to be miles and miles across. Cheap, plentiful, clean energy for the 21st Century. Amazing human achievements! And these SPS's were just one type of project among a great many, limited only by the human imagination. What a future awaited us all!
Fast-forward and I find out the fuckers never even fucking went to the motherfucking Moon. Seriously, can you imagine the disappointment?
A note which is only tenuously connected, but I wanted to get it out there:
I've noticed it mentioned a time or two recently about schemes to put solar power satellites in orbit, which would then beam the power down to Earth using microwaves. Some conspiracy theorists then immediately flipped out (of course) and claimed this was all a scheme to put the zap on us.
Well, as a circumspect thinker, I can't claim to know that they do not want to put the zap on us from space, but all I want to point out is that they've been talking about this for half a century: Space-based solar power
In any case, my only point is that it may be a Bond-villain plot by Gates and Schwab to kill us all, but it's not a new plot.
You know what's sad?
I used to get so excited reading about solar-power satellites. These structures were going to be miles and miles across. Cheap, plentiful, clean energy for the 21st Century. Amazing human achievements! And these SPS's were just one type of project among a great many, limited only by the human imagination. What a future awaited us all!
Fast-forward and I find out the fuckers never even fucking went to the motherfucking Moon. Seriously, can you imagine the disappointment?