Total Streisand effect.

To the disease part? Or the waking up when the rooster crows an hour before the sun rises to start your day? or still paying taxes by feeding a landowner with all you make?

But don’t worry, you can’t read, so you won’t know what the meme says.

“Work in the morning? We are not Lords, our work starts long before the sun rises!”

When looking at the process, it’s actually bonkers in a totally differet direction.

Any laser shot from Earth ends up spread out an area of about 26km diameter on the lunar surface. So you need a high-power laser pulse to get any sort of concentration of photons to hit the lunar surface that are detectable there. Then the reflection gets spread out over a similar large area on reflection to Earth, so you’re trying to detect a few photons from the original laser pulse of 10¹⁷ photons (or whatever the actual number is).

So to your question about sighting - actually not necessary. But you’ve turned the laser pulse into a photon shotgun, which is equally bonkers. You’re shooting a pinpoint laser that still spreads out to the size of a large city just to hit a meter or two-sized target. Then the same thing again just to get the reflection.

extremely interesting

Just say “distracting” we all know that’s what you mean

It’s our Manifold Density!

Just tell him small-minded people can’t comprehend big things and see if he even gets it. Which is true, but also a dick thing to say like that if he is smart enough to understand the slight.

Sadly, apparently bouncing a laser off the moon via the reflectors left up there by Apollo missions isn’t hard exactly, just expensive to get the right equipment to do it right.

In my eyes you’ve done nothing wrong

But in my eyes, I have crusty things because I just woke up.

Thanks, and have a great weekend as well.

lol, and certainly not because he might give anyone there syphilis and try and dose them with antibiotics?

Ahhhh, ok. Thanks. Sorry for not picking it up. FWIW, “sideline” as a single word, and seeing this prior to having enough coffee to resume normal brain activity, is what threw me. Also, not being smart probably played a role.

Ah, ok, so it’s gross-weird?

It’s a genuine question. I’m only familiar with Twilight as a few clips from the movies with RiffTrax comments over them. And I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer and read most of the Season 8 comic, so the “weird stuff + vampires” bar for me is already set high.

George IS the prize

As a kid I read a book about a school with 30 rooms built sideways, so an oopsie tower, where each chapter is about a student or the teacher.

Sammy, the odd student from chapter 14, is a dead rat in many raincoats, and being a dead rat, Sammy is thrown in the trash.

Twilight is weirder than this?

I once interrupted a conversation where I was about to be promoted in order to give my 2 weeks’ notice.

Zero regrets, 10/10, would do it all over again.