In article <744cc401.0404051109.7589d3f3@posting.google.com>,
Steve Dufour <stevejdufour@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm sure that for the cost of a small laser, a PC and
some optics, that you could quite happily get on with
the job without help from anyone else.

What if you put a powerful laser somewhere on the Earth's equator
pointing up?  Wouldn't it have the effect of sweeping the Galactic
Plane that the article mentioned?

Yes, once it got through the atmosphere. Better to put it in geosync
orbit, with a large solar array or several for power.


Gary

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