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November 2nd 14, 07:39 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

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No antennae radiate all the power fed to them!

Stick Out Tongue

But again, the question is why bother?

Well, to add to your list of Eternal Questions of the Past Century, you can
add that one.

It's far older actually, and has been asked of air travel,
mountian climbing, exploring West Africa, Antartica, and probably bungy
jumping. The jury's still out on that last one. The simple answer is: because
it hasn't been done, or at least not by the person most wanting and able to
do it. A better answer is: to find out what can be learned along the way,
given that the destination is a new one. Most of science was built that way.

Lasers were (in)famously a solution waiting for a problem for over 50 years,
and if in all that time people had said 'why bother?' we'd still be without
compact optical storage and several other things. No inertial confinement
fusion experiments, no eye surgery except by scalpel or needle, and likely no
high precision clocks. Big Pharma is asking 'why bother' investing in new
antibiotic research, and the odds are that because it IS asking that question
in the negative, millions, perhaps billions of people will die. Of course,
given the population crisis, any surving descendents may actually be thankful
for this!

Point taken about shade. I still wonder if magnetically guided swarms of
particles might get at it even if there is a shade directly between the sun,
but I guess not many, and so long as the sun is hidden while the distant
signal point is not, then it works, same as it does now without
superconductors.

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