Orbiting Brain Lasers!
Apr. 30th, 2011 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThe Japanese have announced that they're putting an orbital space maser up in the next decade. A maser is a laser that transmits microwaves. The idea is that the orbital station will collect solar energy and convert it to a maser form, which will then be beamed down to a collection station and converted to electricity.
What happens when the ray gets off course? The Japanese will tell you that can't happen; the beam will shut down if it strays, but what if it does? Well, if it's aimed at a city, here's what happens: everyone within the radius of the beam will first feel very hot, and a clicking noise will happen in their ears. The liquid in the ears is highly susceptible to microwaves. The feeling of heat will rise, but there will be little pain. Then they'll go blind as the soft liquids in their eyeballs, a liquid highly exposed to the environment, solidifies like egg yolk. Finally, the pain will reach your brain centers shortly before your knees and elbows explode in blasts of steam and you collapse to the ground, your bone-shielded brain finally registering the damage done before it too ruptures.
What happens when the ray gets off course? The Japanese will tell you that can't happen; the beam will shut down if it strays, but what if it does? Well, if it's aimed at a city, here's what happens: everyone within the radius of the beam will first feel very hot, and a clicking noise will happen in their ears. The liquid in the ears is highly susceptible to microwaves. The feeling of heat will rise, but there will be little pain. Then they'll go blind as the soft liquids in their eyeballs, a liquid highly exposed to the environment, solidifies like egg yolk. Finally, the pain will reach your brain centers shortly before your knees and elbows explode in blasts of steam and you collapse to the ground, your bone-shielded brain finally registering the damage done before it too ruptures.
