Astronomers track centimeter-sized rocks 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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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 days ago
I don’t doubt a laser could fry a mosquito; but could a mosquito actually be seen on radar?
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 days 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
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s 10 times bigger than what you said originally.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As long as the wavelength is adequate, you can track anything.