[teraflop]

This is a cool stunt, but it's not at all practical for IoT communications. For one thing, it requires a big dish and a huge amount of transmission power to get a barely-distinguishable reflected signal.

The other big issue is that it doesn't scale, because there's no directionality: the reflected signal will be scattered off the moon and received everywhere on the hemisphere of earth where the moon is above the horizon. So every single device that tried to use this strategy would have to contend for the same chunk of bandwidth.

[oolonthegreat]

it would be interesting to see where else it could've been picked up. like a scatter dispersion map