this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
930 points (98.7% liked)

Science Memes

19845 readers
3066 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ascend@lemmy.radio 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Curious how well it works with moon reflection

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Technically still solar power, but with the moon as an additional mirror in the system.

[–] lurker2718@lemmings.world 16 points 1 week ago

A construction like this could never work with moonlight, not even theoretically. There is a nice xkcd about it: https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/