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Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base (www.bbc.com)

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's not how light works. In order to be bright enough to illuminate clouds on earth it would have to be brighter than the sun at its source point because of the Inverse-square law

The techbros already have this idea with a satellite it wouldn't work with that either for exactly the same reasons and the satellite would have been way closer.