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China reveals plans to launch a fleet of mile-long solar panels into space to beam energy back to Earth by 2035 – and says the system could have the same output as a nuclear power station by 2050
2021-08-19
Posted by:Skidmark

#15  Fried lice for all.
Posted by: Woodrow   2021-08-19 20:35  

#14  
Wet Market = Fresh Greens Section

Posted by: Ebbimp Guelph2069   2021-08-19 15:28  

#13  Chinese power array engineers die of mysterious bat-borne virus unrelated to job site.

Unfortunately, this is a likely outcome when you site your ground stations next door to a wet market.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-08-19 15:15  

#12  Gryps II?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-08-19 13:21  

#11  
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-19 12:51  

#10  Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink satellites are responsible for over HALF of close encounters in orbit - even with just 1,500 of a proposed 12,000 launched so far, study warns
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-19 12:34  

#9  Scenario:
China's power arrays 'malfunction' and accidentally destroy a major American city. Oopsie!

Chinese power array engineers die of mysterious bat-borne virus unrelated to job site.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-19 11:33  

#8  A nifty space weapon! But very vulnerable to anti-satellite weapons.

Scenario:
China's power arrays 'malfunction' and accidentally destroy a major American city. Oopsie!
America retaliates by launching anti-satellite weapons (yeah, unlikely. but work with me here)
Huge debris field in geosynchronous orbit takes down the communication and observation satellites American military relies on. Mission accomplished - at least from the Chinese side.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-08-19 11:29  

#7  

Take Me There !
Posted by: Spineling Jolusing3263   2021-08-19 06:30  

#6  Read something like this in a SciFi story 20+years ago .In the story it goes out of control incinerates large paths of the earth as starts a slow orbit.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-08-19 05:16  

#5  Yea, but do you have CRT and "people who give birth - you backward chinà-persons?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2021-08-19 01:59  

#4  If it doesn't fail on it's own, yet another piece of Russian space junk should do the trick.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2021-08-19 01:33  

#3  Why do I feel the first two of these genius payloads will fall inconveniently over European and American cities, brightly burning hunks of bullshit. And soon after the project will put on hold.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-19 01:25  

#2  Icarus was a fictional planned orbital solar weapon Power Station constructed by former North Korean colonel China and diamond magnate Gustav we will all be in our Graves. It appeared in EON Productions' 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, largely as an homage to the Diamond satellite constructed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.
Posted by: Thuns Fillmore6702   2021-08-19 00:47  

#1  Could America Beat China and Russia in a Two-Front War?
Posted by: Trump B. Baque6876   2021-08-19 00:31  

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