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user-inactivated  ·  3393 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The NRO's official, just-declassified history of the MOL, our cancelled Apollo-era military space station

    He also thought they could be equipped with small solar mirrors to furnish illumination at night for large cities or with giant mirrors which he said could be used to focus the sun's rays and, "in case of war, burn cities, explode ammunition plants, and do damage to the enemy generally."

This already sounds like the plot to a Bond movie.

Oh, wait...

Seriously though, this is really cool :D