arduinopi:
I have a question and I don't know where to ask it on the internet. Lets say a Google or spy satellite is looking down on you, about 20 feet above your head. If you point a burning laser pointer at the satellite and it picks it up zoomed in on you could you damage the satellite?
The zooming of a satellite's optics does not make the craft any closer to you then it is when not zooming it's optics in. Besides you could not afford the mechanical aiming/tracking mount to allow a laser to actually hit a orbiting satellite. Minimum low earth orbit height is around 100 miles up or more.
Lefty