From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 23/01/2026 15:50, Mike Scott wrote:   
   > On 23/01/2026 12:48, c186282 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> This seems to be 'we made it because we could, but we cant see any   
   >>> use for it, yet'   
   >>   
   >>    Likely true alas - a 'college project'.   
   >>   
   >>    If the signal can't get through walls then   
   >>    the 'security' might be OK.   
   >>   
   >>    Anyway, it IS interesting they can reach such   
   >>    a high frequency - and with the unexpected   
   >>    analog angle. Maybe some of the principles   
   >>    can be moved over to laser applications.   
   >   
   > Was not the laser itself originally described as a "solution in search   
   > of a problem"?   
   >   
   >   
   Very much so. It took a fair while to get the cost down to the point   
   where a laser as a very straight line was affordable. Or to cut wood and   
   plastic. Let alone read a CD...   
      
      
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   twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a   
   globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,   
   on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer   
   projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to   
   contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.   
      
   Richard Lindzen   
      
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