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Comment by zippyman55

7 hours ago

I’m seeking funding to open up a rail gun ranch where you can sit in your lawn chair and blow satellites out of the sky.

Lasers would probably be more practical. Maybe a whole array of lasers w. telescopes? At (say) 500 km, a 20 cm aperture would have a spot size of maybe 50 cm. So let's take that telescope array, hook a kW laser to each one, and roast some LEO satellites?

(Note: this is not an actual suggestion this be done.)

I’m working on a DaaS startup (drone as a service) so maybe I’ll locate next to you and your customers can blow drones out of the sky and mine will keep having to replace theirs.