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    1 month ago

    I don’t doubt a laser could fry a mosquito; but could a mosquito actually be seen on radar? I would think LIDAR would be better at detecting such a small thing, and even then…

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      1 month ago

      Astronomers track centimeter-sized objects up in space. Tracking a mosquito in the same room is not an issue. The rest of the “invention” is the problem.

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        11 month ago

        No they don’t. Our greatest success to date was predicting a 1m wide asteroid a whole 3 hours before it hit.

        That’s actually impressive given the challenge at hand. But nobody is tracking centimeter sized objects outside Earths orbit. And the ones they are tracking in orbit are man made trash and not rocks.

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          1 month ago

          Yeah, they do. 8700 objects tracked that are 10cm or larger at the time of writing the paper. Shitloads of other debris that wasn’t regularly tracked, but could be, at 1cm or similar sizes. Source

          Edit: I also never said “outside Earths orbit”, I said “in space”

            • @Maalus@lemmy.world
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              11 month ago

              I said “centimeter sized”, mr Pedant, which is 1cm. Which is possible to track, just not done. The point is if they can track that, they can track a mosquito in the same room. But by all means, keep arguing semantics.

              • @CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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                01 month ago

                Astronomers track centimeter-sized objects up in space

                No they don’t

                Which is possible to track, just not done.

                I rest my case. Precision is important in astronomy.

                • @Maalus@lemmy.world
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                  11 month ago

                  Bruh, you want to be precise, read the fucking source. 1cm objects are tracked. Just not “routinely”. Stop being an annoying redditor. We are talking about capabilities and we are capable of doing that.

                  So take your rested case and stick it.

            • y0kai
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              11 month ago

              I mean we track the moon, and it can be measured in cm, right? /s