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My startup is going to rent sunlight interceptors that block the extra sunlight sattelite beams that your neighbour rented and what is keeping you awake all night.
🤣🤣 literally the only reaction to this!!
Startup says it wants some more cocaine and wants to know if you know anyone with some more cocaine because some more cocaine would be fuckin’ great right now holy shit
I could do a bump, ya know, if you got a little extra.
It’s a grift. They came to steal VC money.
It’s so dumb uggh. Getting the same power output as the sun would need a MINIMUM surface area of the size of the area on earth it would illuminate.
So say the use case is extending daylight time in Anchorage, Alaska during winter. You would need a mirror that has MINIMUM surface area that of Anchorage. Somehow, it would need to be in an orbit that can reliably reflect light to Anchorage at all points.
Then, it would most likely be in low Earth orbit as putting it higher would require bigger mirrors. However, if u are in LEO, u are also moving incredibly fast. You would thus need an array of these super large mirrors.
All of this for what? Something that an led can do incredibly easily?
Would it not be possible to deflect it through a lens? Couldn’t that increase the spread area significantly and because of the contrast at night you would only need a fraction of the light intensity to make an area feel well lit?
You don’t need a lens, just a differently shaped mirror. Their point is just that the light you capture is based on the mirror’s surface area, so if you are selling sunlight-equivalent amounts of light you would need a mirror of equal area to that you are selling. You would not need such a large mirror to sell an area of dimmer light, and you would not need a lens.
- A convex mirror could work, sure. A lens would be impossible to construct for the size necessary.
- I don’t get what u mean by “contrast at night”, but sure - let’s assume that you would need 5% of the power at noon. You would still need a mirror with a surface area of 5% of the area you are illuminating.
What could possibly go wrong?
Okay, luddite. All of the studies resoundingly show that pointing a giant space mirror down toward our collective homes is a great idea.
It’ll heat the planet up a lot more too if it scales up
New from Ronco! Now you can roast both sides at once!
New startup using cloud seeding tech to create Gatorade rain!
Ants can probably tell you this is not a good idea
Wernstrom!
Oh, that’s a little bright
Not exactly a new idea. Soviets tried it. Expenses were huge, and something that nobody thought of much back then is that nature would surely found itself hanging upside down…
Just looking at this has me feeling really concerned when it comes to the environment and nocturnal species.
Nobody will invest in this until they throw some “AI” in there.
Laugh all you want. But this will be the only thing that saves us during the 2066 vampire wars.
I want to sun my asshole during night hours.
You’re doing it wrong silly, you charge your butthole with moonlight.
Babe wake up Dr Evil just hatched a new scheme
Icarus (Die Another Day) is real?
