Enormous laser beam produces artificial star



Now let me get this straight: is this "artificial star" as in "we're gonna shine a laser into the sky and measure how many photons fall off the top" or is this "artifical star" as in "making a goddamn artificial star!"? If the latter, then getting all giddy about souped-up telescopes and shapeshifting mirrors is just insanely absurd.

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On an entirely different note, Octavia Butler is dead.



The writer of Wild Seed is dead.

Inspirational

Influential

Intellectual

Socially-conscious

Female black scifi writer is dead. Any idea just how few of those we have left?

Goddamn it.