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by JoeAltmaier 2680 days ago
It'll be the largest most fragile thing in the sky - kilometers wide and trivially destabilized/neutralized. Think black paint.

We seem to be arguing It'll be terribly expensive and difficult to make work, on one hand, and It'll be trivially easy to make into a weapon, on the other.

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Relatively easy to make work and quite uneconomical compared to ground solar fields. (Multiple.)
But indefinitely expandable - up to millions of square kilometers. Try that next to a big city!