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.
Reminds me of the horrific ending to the movie Hancock (2008)
I’m pretty sure I heard about this a while ago and the math just doesn’t math.
If only we had these things called electric lights.
Yah, I can’t see anything that could go wrong with this. /s
Emphasis on I can’t see anything
Cartoon Country.
A very unserious place with very serious problems.
Naw, the Simpsons was implying a far more useful sun blocking device. What the mirror is has much more impact and is in space.
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.
Sure but capitalists want to own the sun for renewables.
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.
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.
Someone needs to read the Dyson Sphere paper: https://archive.org/download/dyson-1960-search-for-artificial-stellar-sources-of-infrared
(The paper was written as a sarcastic take on SETI sinking money into frivolous research of extra-terrestrial intelligence.)
fcc is not a science based department. they should have no say at all over environmental endeavors
They don’t, which is why they can’t prohibit this satellite. It meets all their requirements regarding radio interference.
The Satellite should absolutely be stopped, but the FCC isn’t the agency to do it.
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?
They don’t have the literacy / abstract thinking necessary to understand themes and like the ‘vibes’ of nerdy things being cool now.
If I recall he was pretty anti fascist
Elon likely never read Foundation, and it’s frustrating that he’s getting credit for it.
I do firmly put that on the people not doing their research, though. We should absolutely be bullying the shit out of people for being disingenuous in this way.
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
“Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities” illegal.
That’s only when “the Jews TM” do it. When its capitalism then fine! See they are still spewing carbon into the atmosphere in Florida but they haven’t banned internal combustion engines, and they keep burning coal!
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?
this is great!
then again, this thing will be much closer to LEO than the moon, but it would probably still take billions of people to do it to have any impact.
🤷 guess we’re just going to need to work on surface to air anti-material projectiles.
thankfully the us is the only country that has a sky so only their government’s approval is needed 😁👍
This is an important point, and partly why you’re not seeing ads up in the night sky just yet.
