So when I mount a big cube corner reflector on my boat and cover it with tissue paper or something that vaporizes away when they fire a blast at me, they will blast themselves instead?

Not to me. Imagine standing on Io. A glowing red lava stream over there next to the yellow and black sulfur cliff, dusted with white SO2 snow, all under a starry sky streaked with intense green and blue aurora, and a half-Jupiter rising.

I was one-time sitting across from a girlfriend in a restaurant. I glanced over her shoulder at someone walking in the distance. The image of them and the whole room froze for about 1 second, but I could hear that my girlfriend was still talking. I had just long enough to think WTF.... then, the image of person…

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This would also explain the Uncertainty Principle. Assume whatever calculations being done by the universe involve something transendental like pi or e. These are expressible as very simple infinite series (well, actually pi/4 is, but one can substitute for it in any equation and sometimes even make the original…

1) Charge the market rate for water...

I agree that using some farmland is an environmentally responsible solution. It will only work and make sense if the following criteria are met:

"Put the damn thing in a place where it will not ... destroy habitats. PLENTY of places to choose."

The binary thinking is because that is what the physics and human behavior allow. People in general aren't willing to lower their lifestyle for the tortoises, even if you are. So the energy needs to come from somewhere. Either the source is renewable, or it isn't renewable - a binary answer. And while there is some…