I just imagine the first places that put in in-door lightnig like "here now you can work later in the day" now they will be like "Oh look you can work 24/7 now it's never dark anymore".
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Throw these guys in a volcano. Add the billionaires and tech capitalists while at it.
Cut to: man watching in shock as his "mirror satellite" burns people like ants under a magnifier
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Very useful on the off chance that vampires are real. Otherwise.... Less so.
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What experts? Give me my Dyson spehere!
This isn’t even possible and the cost even if it was would be ASTRONOMICAL.
they'll start by selling sunlight at night, but we know that it'll end up being that we have to either pay to have sunlight in the daytime OR pay to not have sunlight at night.
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Hey so, this might seem pretty extreme but um....
People who even attempt to steal sunlight should die. I don't care how, they should just be dead.
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So literal space lasers?
Just like a certain great philosopher said, "The sun is a deadly laser"
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No.
Oh, I think it's a wonderful plan for the startup. They don't own space, they don't have any control over space, they're selling something that they know they can't possibly deliver because they would have to get people to agree that they're allowed to steal sunlight and space, and that would never happen. It's great for them. They can get some cash.
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We had a solution for this MOONTOWERS
Scientists: One desperate plan we are considering to combat climate change is a series of gigantic mirrors to deflect sunlight away from the planet.
These assholes: OK, but what if, like, the opposite of that?
🎵 Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don’t care, I’m still free, you can’t take the sky from me.
Wait, no, don’t take the sky from me!
What about making our own startup that will make sure to destroy those orbital glasses?
Surface to space missiles seem to be a profitable entreprise
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for solar, a 5km diameter solar farm might hold 10m square meters of panels. at 250w each, 2.5gw solar farm. 4 times a full moon, is 1/100000th the rated capacity (noon at equator) of panels, and so 25kw of power. At 10c/kwh electricity revenue potential, such a farm (exists only in China) could break even offering to rent night light at $2.50/hour.
Batteries charged by solar can deliver profitable electricity at night for far less than 10c/kwh.
If you just want more light somewhere, it would be far cheaper to do from ground systems.
Space debris target.
Have we seen this episode on futurama?