The FCC space mirror approval allows Reflect Orbital to test artificial sunlight despite warnings about astronomy and safety.
  • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3 months

    i wonder how easy it would be to build something that can reach the orbit and collide with the damn thing to deorbit it, if this nightmare ever becomes reality

  • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

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

  • Wecott.com@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3 months

    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.

    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3 months

      Reminds me of the horrific ending to the movie Hancock (2008)

  • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    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.

      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Put up portable solar panels in a park and watch people loose their mind that you are getting something for free (minus cost of panels and battery).

        People will literally stand there trying to find a law you are breaking.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    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?

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        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.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
      3 months

      Naw, the Simpsons was implying a far more useful sun blocking device. What the mirror is has much more impact and is in space.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
    3 months

    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.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

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

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      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.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    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

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      “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!