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There is no evidence for their existence.

Melted aluminum in an area where the ambient environment is such that any heat (such as a tire fire) should have dissipated away (thus preventing aluminum from melting) is exactly evidence of their existence. The aluminum wheels and the ground are both excellent thermal conductors, with the ground an infinite thermal sink unless there is a TON of fuel to heat it up. There is no way to melt aluminum with thermal energy alone without the entire surrounding environment being so hot that the boundary conditions between the aluminum and the ground are no longer a thermal boundary.

You could also take five seconds and look at designs for space based solar energy transmission. Such an investigation (beyond wikipedia, but it's a place to start) also addresses your "no theory," "no operational theory," and "satellites zip along rather rapidly" arguments, which are trivially shut down in other ways, but it's all nice and neatly rebutted in a simple investigation into space based solar energy, so I'll leave it at that.

1 year ago
1 score
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There is no evidence for their existence.

Melted aluminum in an area where the ambient environment is such that any heat (such as a tire fire) should have dissipated away (thus prevented aluminum from melting) is exactly evidence of their existence. The aluminum wheels and the ground are both excellent thermal conductors, with the ground an infinite thermal sink unless there is a TON of fuel to heat it up. There is no way to melt aluminum with thermal energy alone without the entire surrounding environment being so hot that the boundary conditions between the aluminum and the ground are no longer a thermal boundary.

You could also take five seconds and look at designs for space based solar energy transmission. Such an investigation (beyond wikipedia, but it's a place to start) also addresses your "no theory," "no operational theory," and "satellites zip along rather rapidly" arguments, which are trivially shut down in other ways, but it's all nice and neatly rebutted in a simple investigation into space based solar energy, so I'll leave it at that.

1 year ago
1 score