@drewdevault so an area of 10 x 10 km, that is 10^8 sq meter. You want 10^12 W, so you need 10^4 W or 10000 W per square meter. You get 1361 per sq meter at 1AU, so your distance should be sqrt(1361/10000) AU.
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Can someone who's better than me at math help me figure something out for a short story -
RIP my Chevrolet Bolt, totalled because a techbro drove his Tesla through an intersection while drunk and depending on autopilot to save him.@ariadne @anthony_steele What specific things did it have / do that made you hate it?
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how am i supposed to come together with people who just campaigned on the pretense of wanting me to die?@ariadne Go to the gym, go to the range, get a self-defense AR15, ...
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Just found out that the Dutch air raid sirens are getting decommissioned next year (because cell phone alerts have just as high a penetration these days and can bundle a message explaining what's actually wrong).@0xabad1dea @mawhrin @dysfun It's the same argument people have to still want a house phone - "what if the internet doesn't work!". They don't seem to realize that all phones have been going through the internet for the past decade at least, so if the internet is actually down your phone is just as down.
But sure, keep paying €5 a month for a "fixed phone" to prevent that.