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For how long do I have to aim a laser at the moon to see a dot?

There are two possible questions here.  The first is simply how long would it take for a laser to travel to the moon and back.The moon is around 384,000 km away.  The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s.  The journey is round trip, so:However, if the question really is about seeing the dot - you won't.  Ever.  Beams of light diverge.  Take a flashlight (torch) for example.  Why is it that if you are 20 meters from a wall the light will illuminate it, but if you are 40 meters from that wall, the light won't illuminate it?  What's happening here?  Is something stopping the light from traveling that distance?  No, the light is traveling unimpeded, 40 meters is nothing for a photon.  But the beam of light gets larger and larger with distance.  So, the extremely dense cross section of photons at the lens of the flashlight is very bright, but as the beam gets wider, those photons are distributed over greater area.  The light density gets less and the beam gets dimmer.Very expensive lasers are designed to minimize this beam spreading, called divergence - but they can't stop it.  And we do reflect lasers off the moon.  Well, more accurately, we reflect lasers off mirrors that the Apollo astronauts left on the moon.Although the moon looks bright to us, that's just because the sun is radiating it with so much light.  The moon is gray like charcoal.  It only reflects about 7% of the visible light that hits it.  So, even the best lasers combined with the best telescopes aren't going to be effective at reflecting visible light off of the surface.  But those mirrors are highly reflective.Even so, very few of the photons from the lasers aimed at those mirrors actually make it back to the telescope.  There is a project called APOLLO (Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation) that fires laser pulses at those mirrors and measures the returned signal to calculate extremely precisely the distance to the moon.  They use a powerful laser and yet only 1.7 in 1E17 of the photons from their laser are sensed upon return.That's 1.7 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 photons.  With their system, that means the returning signal consists of 5-10 photons.  A giant 3.5 meter telescope can only detect 5-10 photons.  Your eye isn't going to have such luck.Here's a picture of APOLLO shining its laser on the moon.

How can the HOA kick you out of your house when you own it?

How can the HOA kick you out of your house when you own it?Your HOA cannot directly kick you out of your home. There is a bit of a legal process. The HOA can do this because while you own your home, the HOA owns the neighborhood in which your home lives. That means you are responsible to pay dues to the HOA which controls your neighborhood. If you break HOA rules, you may get fined. If you fail to pay fines or HOA dues, the HOA can put a lien on your house for the dues and fines and lawyers fees owed. You cannot sell or refinance your home until that lien is paid.And if the lien goes unpaid for long enough, the HOA can choose to foreclose on that lien, which means that the home will be sold to pay the outstanding liens against the house.You must, as a homeowner, maintain your financial obligations that you agreed to when you bought your home. Remember that stack of papers you spent an hour signing (and you never knew you could sign your name that many times)? One of those was the covenants on file with the City which says that you agree that the HOA runs the show in your neighborhood and you have to play along or face financial penalties. You also agreed that if you don’t pay, the HOA can take what you owe out of the cost of the home. You agreed that the HOA would be the primary non-mortgage lienholder, and could use your house as the collateral for unpaid HOA debts. The bank may be the mortgage lienholder, but the HOA is usually the first non-mortgage lienholder in line behind any mortgage liens. So even if you’re paying your mortgage on time but you fail to pay HOA dues or fines, you can still have a lien foreclosed, and you can be evicted and your house can be forcibly sold in a foreclosure sale to cover what you owe.I oversaw two foreclosures for failure to pay HOA dues and fines during my tenure on our Board of Directors. It’s a very lengthy process, but we worked as closely with the homeowner as they would allow. In one case, we worked out a payment plan with the homeowner which allowed him to stay in his house. In another, the homeowner simply wouldn’t play nice at all. Tangentially, he ended up going to jail on a DV charge. A real sweetheart, that one. We threatened to foreclose, and while we were preparing to file, the bank decided to foreclose which meant we got paid without paying for the foreclosure. Phew.