Technology

This thing will never materialize. It's a vapor-project for stupid people to pour money into.

I live in the city man, I'm not going to notice shit.

For as long as there has been humankind, we have gazed up at the night sky, for comfort, for romance, for meditation, for curiosity, etc. It has been a core human experience, evolutionarily hard-wired into our humanity and psyche.

Now these Sociopathic Ferengi are going to steal that experience from every future human being, for profit.

I'm pretty sure I heard about this a while ago and the math just doesn't math.

Yah, I can't see anything that could go wrong with this. /s

Cartoon Country.

A very unserious place with very serious problems.

If only we had these things called electric lights.

It would be a lot cheaper and easier to just stop burning fossil fuels. We could just take the money for this and invest in renewables.

fcc is not a science based department. they should have no say at all over environmental endeavors

I was just postulating to a friend, that if we built a huge array of solar panels, set out in a pattern not unlike solar sails, and deployed them out in-between the Earth and the Sun, we could block an appreciable amount of heat, which might act as a way to slow down climate change on our planet. Additionally this array could be connected in a grid, making it a huge space station, and energy source, where we could potentially use it as a base to start collecting and mining asteroids.

And then I read about these dumb mother fuckers who want to redirect sunlight back at the earth, making climate change worse, all to replace a couple flood lights? How fucking stupid is the person who brought this to reality? Jesus fucking christ.

So uh... Florida made "Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities" illegal.

So are they going to launch that into space from another state, because one would think launching such out of cape canaveral would be off limits

Why the fuck is every dystopian industrialist naming their shit after Tolkein? Does an artificial moon designed to fuck the natural order sound like something he would want to endorse?

Constructive dialogue can allow for new technology to succeed without stepping on too many toes. That's the important role social media plays in society-impacting inventions and plans.

thankfully the us is the only country that has a sky so only their government’s approval is needed 😁👍

unrelated question. if you focus thousands of medium or low wattage lasers to a single point, will their wattage combine to equal that of a high powered laser?

There's a lot of fuckery afoot as far as space goes. There are even companies trying to get world governments to allow them to put satellites in space so ads can be beamed into the night sky. I made a video about it if anyone's bored.

The good news is that the scientific community fought back hard against it.

The illumination would last only a few minutes at one location before the mirror required repointing. Reflect Orbital says the technology could extend solar power production after sunset, illuminate construction areas and assist rescue teams working in darkness.

Flare guns already do this for a lot cheaper. They even come in a choice of colours.

Yes, because the one thing we really need is more heat on earth.