It is all rather confusing. I’m in Australia so I generally think twice then doubt thrice when it comes to this kind of thing. Thanks for hashing it out w me

You’re quite right. Thank you. I thought OP was suggesting that at a certain time of year (at night) we would be facing a particular direction relative to the Milky Way. So I wonder which time of year that is? Assuming this to be true for large swathes of time due to our long orbit around the centre of the galaxy…

What hemisphere are you in?

How does the Milky Way compare to other galaxies? Is it the standard shape, structure and size, or is it unusual in some way?

I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for the response.

Is this a matter of adding more energy to the system than there otherwise would have been without intervention?

Layman here — but this is not like a microwave oven appliance. The appliance doesn’t exactly produce heat to warm food. It fires microwaves at a finely tuned frequency to excite the water molecules in your food which makes them hot (correct me if I’m wrong here please). So I’m assuming the microwaves used in this project would be tuned differently so as not to excite our atmosphere.