But as Maccone told the crowd at Stanford, we do much better still if we set up a bridge with not one but two FOCAL missions. Put one at the gravitational lens of the Sun, the other at the lens of the other star. At this point, things get wild. The minimum transmitted power drops to less than 10-4 watts. You’re reading that right — one-tenth of a milliwatt is enough to create error-free communications between the Sun and Alpha Centauri through two FOCAL antennas. Maccone’s paper assumes two 12-meter FOCAL antennas. StarShot envisions using its somewhat smaller sail as the antenna, a goal given impetus by these numbers.Of course, with a latency of a year, it ain't great but it sure as hell beats nothing, which is what you'd get without it.
The bigots are scum, to be sure. But their scumminess pales in comparison to the radical evil for which the the Gramscians are greasing the skids. A boot stamping on a human face, forever, with “diversity” and “tolerance” spelled out in the studs on the boot sole.Damn Straight. These neo-puritans are as bad as the original utopian nutcases of Plymouth colony.
“We Killed Off – What – Twenty Percent of the Population. We Burned Down every Town in North Korea…”Curtis LeMay
