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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 20 hours ago

China Tests Device to Remotely Recharge ‘Drone Swarms’ From Orbit—and It's Working

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China Tests Device to Remotely Recharge ‘Drone Swarms’ From Orbit—and It's Working

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 20 hours ago
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China's prototype orbital solar plant can now beam 143 watts of power to a drone cruising in mid-flight.
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    Why not just use that to fry the target?

    /s

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    drones in flight

    charger in orbit

    wireless transmission

    Tesla, the real one, would be proud.

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    wireless power transmission efficiency of 20.8% from direct current to direct current over a distance of [328 feet] 100 meters

    not bad considering wireless charging is only 70-80% efficiency and that’s not even a meter distance apart

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    damn that sounds cool as fuck

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    by now, China is the global leader. US has been crumbling for a while.

    If there’s ever a US/China war, the US will lose. it isn’t even close to a fair match.

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      The US has been fighting wars for the past… Well… Basically always. I think this still is an advantage China is missing. But the economic war might be another beast.

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        The US military is a paper tiger, designed and optimize to funnel public funds to military shareholders pockets. and it’s extremely effective at only that.

        When it comes to actual war, it is useless and ends up delegating actual war to mercenary groups.

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          This all doesn’t really matter in a war between nuclear powers. The US isn’t going to lose by itself.

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            I hate that I might be witness to the Great Filter, and finally have an answer to the Fermi Paradox

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    A bunch of terminator robots

    Skynet is a self-aware artificial intelligence system that becomes the main antagonist of the Terminator franchise Earth.

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      it’s just a charger though

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