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meticulousmind ,

This sounds like a suckier version of a death ray.

PunchingWood ,

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.

dogsoahC ,
@dogsoahC@lemm.ee avatar

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

c0smokram3r ,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

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

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

youtu.be/yDV3v0Xb4ow

FireRetardant ,

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?

dependencyinjection ,

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.

Deme ,

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

Covoid ,

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

lordnikon ,

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.

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

Ste41th ,

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

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Facts.

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

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