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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

That's the moon. Tech bros just invented the moon.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'd learn towards it being that they learned about Dyson sphere. And didn't really understand as tech bros do.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do we not remember when futurama tried this and accidently lasered a convention?

On a more serious note, how is it fair if say a neighbouring business orders this service and now what, your whole neighbourhood just doesn't get night time anymore? The local climate just gets a few degrees hotter, no biggie?

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

This has to be a crash grab. Like it’s absurd, not only can I not think why you would want this service I wonder how the logistics of moving it to a location and pissing off people that don’t want it to be daylight.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

we have enough shit floating around in orbit, let alone adding a fucking mirror.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Facts.

If we had a functioning government we'd make these billion-dollar space boondoggles clean up their own shit.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Didn't the Soviets try this back in the 90s? I remember it was a failure and you would need so many satellites. Already have enough problems with Emerald Mine boy as it is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Znamya_(satellite)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

The problem with CO2 is that it traps energy radiated from the earth, preventing it from passing through the atmosphere and back into the sky. Now we're going to send down more energy?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The good thing is that there's not even a chance this idiotic thing will ever be built.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think they should build it, but use it to reflect some darkness down on the bright side, rather than sunlight down on the dark side.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Literally the plot of a James Bond villain. The best news is that this shit will never work and it will only serve to evaporate the wealth of some overly-moneyed idiots.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Fucking stupid. Shoot these idiots into the sun if they love it so much.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I hope that when this happens, ASAT-missiles are common enough that I'll be able to get one.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

If I wake up at 1AM and it's daylight because my neighbor paid 1bn for some mirror time I'm becoming a terrorist

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Extra juice for the solar panels

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Exactly who I imagined was running this startup, a pilled-up tech bro 😒

Selling Sunlight to Solar Farms After Dark | Ben Nowack, Reflect Orbital

https://youtu.be/yDV3v0Xb4ow

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This sounds like a suckier version of a death ray.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I remember Russians talking about space billboards at some point.

Glad that never came off the ground.

Imagine a gigantic glowing billboard and passing over at night.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Someone should set up giant flood lights outside the CEOs house pointing into his windows

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