wrote:

On Friday, June 23, 2017 at 12:55:31 PM UTC-4, Fred J. McCall wrote:
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I was thinking about beamed energy for Earth to-orbit power.


Well, you should stop thinking about it. You will only, as is your
wont, reinvent it badly with sketchy science.

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If it is reinvention that is ok. Getting products on my own makes me feel close to the cutting edge. A duplicate means comparative applied intelligence has occurred.


It means no such thing. What it means is: 1) You're trying to
'invent' in a field that you haven't a clue about the current state of
the art of, and 2) Because you usually come up with some really
technically ****ed up way to try to do something we already know how
to do if we want to, you just waste everyone's time.

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