Comments on: Beam Us All Up https://blog.speculist.com/space/beam-us-all-up.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Karl Hallowell https://blog.speculist.com/space/beam-us-all-up.html#comment-111 Karl Hallowell Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:54:43 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=108#comment-111 Hrmmm, not sure about Epsilon Eridani. It’ll probably be pretty chilly unless the gas giant is warm enough.

]]> By: Karl Hallowell https://blog.speculist.com/space/beam-us-all-up.html#comment-110 Karl Hallowell Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:52:52 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=108#comment-110 Doh. I need to read these articles through. You mention the laser beam next. Sorry.

]]> By: Karl Hallowell https://blog.speculist.com/space/beam-us-all-up.html#comment-109 Karl Hallowell Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:52:10 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=108#comment-109 Lasers would be able to take over at the longer distances. They lose power at 1/r^2, but visible light frequencies can be focused quite well.

A cool idea I heard from William Mook on the sci.space.tech list (no idea where it originally came from) was to surround the Sun with mirrors well within the orbit of Mercury. One could then beam significant power to ridiculous distances (Mr. Mook had estimated 100 light years if the mirrors were placed a million kms out) and still illuminate Earth and other desirable locations in the Solar System.

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