top shelf bot!
yet more proof that AI is a lot further off than people think
uh, how much damage can a microwave weapon do from space? It requires power, something satellites need to conserve. An orbital weapon like the rods of god would be very power efficient and have bunker busting capabilities.
If it had nuclear generated power I'd buy that.
… knew a navy electrician on the Eisenhower and he told me they used ground based microwaves/lidar to drop a tomcat out of the sky by frying the telemetry system from a mile away. In 1980… It is possible to read the electrical activity(potentials) of a circuit at distance, from orbit.