• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Scale goes without saying; but now I’m trying to imagine what it’d actually be like. I’d guess the tac would take out most medium-sized towns. The heads of them could quickly fill a California-sized area.

    Then you connect them with string and it’s just huge mass of fibre across the sky, 50km wide.

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      3 days ago

      Thank you so much for this estimation. I don’t even care about the “about” part of it. I wanted a rough estimation and you provided.

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    Scale’s a bit off. On the map, a pin is the size of France. The metal portion could easily take out a major city. On the beach, a pin is about 2-3 meters diameter, with the metal part only big enough to take out one person.

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      2-3m is still overestimating it. It’s as wide as a non-obese person, so like 0.5m or less.

      Edit: looking again, maybe 1m, since it actually looks about the width of their hands stretched out a bit to lean on.