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To light up the ground at night. Numerous commercial and military
apps... light up a disaster area, light up a battlefield.



Or make the thing just a little bit flexible so that you can bow it into
a parabolic dish shape and....
In "Real Genius" they called it The Crossbow Project. ;-)
(considering the tiny amount of flexing it would need to bring it into
focus at its orbital height, something on the ground is probably going
to get fried every time an astronaut bumps something on the side of the
LM facing away from the Earth.)

Pat