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Getting industrial grade lasers is the easy part.. it seems to be within range of aliexpress available tattoo removal laser (based on the laser pulse energies l
by minetest2048 6mo ago
Getting industrial grade lasers is the easy part.. it seems to be within range of aliexpress available tattoo removal laser (based on the laser pulse energies listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiments#List_of_observatories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment... and rough laser tattoo removal energies listed in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10421900/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10421900/ .. take aliexpress rating with grain of salt)
You do need access to a large telescope (at least 1.2m based on the wiki article), a sensitive detector (is photomultiplier tube sensitive enough??) and most importantly, access to your local laser clearinghouse so you don't accidentally shoot an airplane, blind the pilot and got arrested, or a satellite and start a war (if you believe some guy on quora). Probably the last part is the hardest thing for an amateur