/sci/, what happens when you start fiddling around with diamonds and lasers?
>>7586694
You go blind.
>>7586694
You mess with the third law. Don't mess with the third law.
>>7586766
Wait, so we can actually fly?
Jesus christ.
>>7586694
You create a luxury night club.
>>7586694
Inb4 007 diamonds are forever
>>7586694
The diamond melts, like any other metal.
Photonics happens. You can make materials with turned diamond which don't radiate heat in particular thermal bands. Shit's neat.
>>7587208
The plan in the movie was something like this right?
>build giant near-UV lasers on the ground
>put diamond mirrors into space and hope no one sees it
>set the homes of your political enemies on fire before they realize what's happening
>take over the world
>>7586694
pic related
>>7587594
Uncomfortably, my calculations give that neither does the diffraction limit on angular resolution nor does atmospheric seeing significantly impede this. I am happier than ever to know that x-rays are hard to reflect, though there might be some way to do it with total external reflection...
>>7587644
>implying the atmosphere absorbs x-rays enough less than you
Stupid freshman.