[dandelany]

This nicely illustrates one of the fundamental problems of internet comments… it took 30 seconds to write this but it would take me an hour to prove it’s bull.

[Rebelgecko]

This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as Brandolini's law or the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle

[itworkslikethat]

It's true, that's the basic principle Starlink dishes and satellites operate on - they use phased antenna arrays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array

It's not practical to use it as a Directed Energy Weapon, but it is - conceptually - similar to one.