The Math would add up

tell my why this thing should not be able to melt satelites that cross over during the day

I suspect in order to stay focused on such distances you'd need extremely flat mirrors. Like, telescope grade stuff.

I doubt the mirrors they have is even within an order of magnitude flat enough.

Those are designed to focus on a large, stationary, object not far away, not a small hypersonic object very very far away.

Satellites be zoomin, it would be hard to hit one for more than a split second. But I'm definitely down to try!

Isn’t there some inverse square math rule about radiation like this? The further away you are the radiation reaching you is far less than it would seem? Not good at remembering this math so maybe someone can correct me.

Even if you could get the mirrors all focused accurately and tracking the object at speed it seems like it wouldn’t be any more of a concern than a really bright searchlight or something.

Who do you think you are? Archimedes?

Yeah except the focal point of those mirrors is measured in meters not 100s of kilometers. You can't use them to focus on something that far away.

They would have to adjust really quickly to track

All this science talk but the first thing I thought of was a reference to Fallout New Vegas.

I love the fact that those towers are so bright they glitch up Google maps satellite view.

Seeing them at a distance while driving from Primm to Nipton was fucking intense, that shit is overwhelmingly bright.

Patrolling the Mojave wasteland almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

Euclid C Finder go brrrrrr 💥

Someone get this person a defense contract stat

There is the matter of space debris, which is already a problem. If you're going to attack satellites to disable them you want to capture them in a decaying orbit.

Question is, do the spy satellite use solar panels?

And

Do these solar panels have a emergency shutdown when they suddenly get 100MW instead of 10W output power?

Are those mirrors curved to a focal point? If theyre flat mirrors which they probably would be, i think it could work

My brain has been poisoned too thoroughly by New Vegas for me to make any vaguely reasonable comment. W should make Archimedes and melt putin into a puddle.

*Jesse, what the hell are you talking about?

With one ?, he's not scared or anything.