[TML] Noncanonical TU 3D.

[Andy Slack]

> bounces at travellercentral.com] On Behalf Of Ewan Quibell
> Anthony Jackson wrote:
> > Timothy Little wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Anthony Jackson wrote:
> >>> Assuming a 1 gigawatt radar, that will take about five months.
> >> That seems pretty minor in the scale of exploration and colonisation
> >> efforts that take at least decades.
> >
> > Well, assuming you can make the system I described, sure. A gigawatt
> > laser plus a 1,000 meter radar dish is fairly generous.
> 
> Could you use something like a very long baseline radio telescope
> instead? It seems far more practical, but I have no idea whether it
> would be of any use in this type of search.

So, we're talking a synthetic aperture thang created by deploying a bunch of
smallish drone units?

Andy