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Reflect Orbital's Constellation of 50K Satellite Mirrors Could Create Artificial Daylight From Orbit
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A new proposed satellite constellation could turn the night sky into permanent twilight – or even daylight – should a “visionary” startup’s plans come to fruition. Never mind that the Soviets tried it in the 90s before deciding it was a terrible idea, as should be obvious to most people without having to give it too much thought. Still, if it allowed the US to put an end to daylight savings time changes, I might be onboard with it.
Just kidding, here’s the petition against it that you should sign
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To save folks reading the long winded intro:
Reflect Orbital is a start-up company proposing a constellation of up to 50,000 satellites by 2035, to provide a sunlight-on-demand service to consumers. This would involve reflecting beams of sunlight with a diameter of about 5 kilometers onto Earth’s surface to provide lighting or solar energy to the customers.
This is a terrible idea! Have these morons never seen Futurama?
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What an obviously terrible idea. People are going to try to shoot them down.
They’re naming their test satellite EARENDIL-1. Why do these people always appropriate Tolkien stuff?
Yeah, lets add more energy to the planet. It’s not hot enough as is.
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Fuck this billionaire bullshit that will be abused to hell and back. First off, this is WAY more complicated than these bozos imagine, it’s like the “datacenters in space!!!” stupidity. Yet these assholes will invest in it, pollution will have been had from here to hell and back, and it’ll fail because this is not just “dump a mirror in orbit”
But let’s say they get it done, just for a second
What do you think will happen? What would happen to nature, animals, humans, and even weather patterns To add to that, Do you really believe byhis would be abused to fuck over some marginalized group or country?
Orbital mirrors, sure… definitely not a weapon for burning stuff with sunlight from space!