Laugh all you want. But this will be the only thing that saves us during the 2066 vampire wars.
Idiot! Just don’t invite them in.
I want to sun my asshole during night hours.
You’re doing it wrong silly, you charge your butthole with moonlight.
Just looking at this has me feeling really concerned when it comes to the environment and nocturnal species.
Well unless the mirror is 20km across, they won’t notice because the whole idea is insane.
This is like the Romans thinking they are going to build aircraft, we are no way we are near the level of technology required to do this. This is like stage 2 civilization level stuff.
Oh okay, it’s just that I feel attached to the woodlands and find comfort being in the middle of the forest, and seeing what is going on here made me feel really concerned for the environment and nocturnal species. Like, what if you happen to be an animal that is on the prowl or is active at night and all of a sudden its daylight due to sunlight being reflected from a mirror in space?
How would it work if it’s not that large, though? They could only sell sunlight to people who are within the target radius, but that would be very temporary
Very temporary. If it’s going to be very has to be close to the Earth or no one will see it. But if it’s close to the Earth it moves so fast there’s no point, orbital speed for that altitude is something like 7.8 km per second.
The only way to make this work is to have a truly vast mirror and have it out at geostationary orbit, then angle the mirror as needed to turn on or off the sun but then you’re going to be covering a significant area of the planet.
To demonstrate how utterly insane this idea is, this is the sort of thing a civilization would do if it decided it wanted to terraform Mars. Doing this wouldn’t be the efforts of a single corporation it would have to be a global effort, we don’t currently have the capability of putting something that massive in orbit, we don’t have a way to reliably control the mirror, we can’t even manufacture a mirrored surface that large, and there have been zero studies on the environmental effects of doing this. It would honestly probably be easier to build a space elevator.
Oh and even if we did do all of this, despite it being impossible, it would only work for a couple of years and then the mirror would get pushed out of orbit by light pressure. The only way to counter that is extremely complicated mirror geometries, and even more mirrors, making the total surface area in the hundreds or even thousands of kilometer range.
It does sound ludicrous…might be better off making a concave mirror so it reflects and intensifies the light…like a giant magnifying glass over an ant hill. Yeah…that’s how they should do it. Nothing gonna wrong with that.
A concave mirror would focus all of the light from a wide area into a single point. What you’ve created there is a giant space laser. One that only works at night because you need the sun on the opposite side of the Earth to reflect it.
Also all of the previous problems about it needing to be massive, or close to the Earth and moving faster apply.
Yeah, what you just stated about a concave mirror is not only ludicrous, but would be very destructive to the wilderness and wildlife and probably would be time to contact every wilderness and wildlife defense group to have this so called start-up shut down.
This is horrifying idea
Luckily it’s just an attempt to scam some dumb VCs
Please, no.
Astronomer hate this simple trick to ruin all observations.
This has been debunked like 20x over…
I’d say do some research before posting hogwash, but hey… it’s Ozma.
So kind.
if it was cheap and fast it could be used for trolling, a perfect example of a bad idea that has good applications.
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!!
Did this dude get VC $ by presenting The Simpsons “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” wtfff is this nonsense 🙄
WERNSTROM!!!
Like stealing candy from a baby…
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.
This gives me a great idea for a new startup! I’m going to put a giant mirror in space, and you’ll need to pay me to turn OFF the sunlight at night.
The people behind that startup are in tears strangling each other wishing they thought of this.
I’d like to have darkness during daytime. I’m not sure I would pay for it, but I’d like it very much.
Slaps roof of curtains
slaps curtains off of the rod
Someone watched an old Bond film.
Someone watched an old Bond film.
old
Die Another Day (2002)
You fucking watch yourself, alright? You’re on thin ice.
That was 47 years ago.
Your math is off. It’s closer to 67 years ago. You forgot to carry the 2
