“You’re telling me that they built this place just to take pictures of our satellites?” Ryan demanded. “No, sir. They can use it for that, no sweat. It makes a perfect cover. And a system that can image a satellite at geosynchronous altitude might be able to clobber one in low earth orbit. If you think of these four mirrors here as a telescope, remember that a telescope can be a lens for a camera, or part of a gunsight. It could also make a damned efficient aiming system. How much power runs into this lab?” Ryan set down a photo. “The current power output from this dam is something like five
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