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Tesla probably already did it in a year - too bad his notebooks were 'lost' ...

Is there a history behind this quote? Would love to hear it.

Nikola Tesla was supposedly working on the production and wireless transmission of power -- including a "death beam". After his death, many of his papers were claimed to be missing:

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html

Interestingly, one of the main investigators into the incident was Dr. John G. Trump (uncle of President Trump).

I came to the comments because I'm worried about just that kind of attitude. It strikes me that messing with this kind of thing could have some major impacts on the functioning of the atmosphere and magnetosphere, so I'd want to see very careful studies done by numerous independent organizations before we even remotely considered collectively giving Elon Musk a chance at something like that.

Nahh, Musk is a scientist, if he says it, it has to be true!

... that was a joke, HN, lighten up =)

or he could aim his rockets so they can ride the jets

.....or it's free!