I fucking hate this company.

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets
For a company that deals with sunlight, they aren't very bright.

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@tubbdoose @sundogplanets Don't you mean how many does it take to screw a planet?

[leontheloner@defcon.social]

@sundogplanets If no one else will say it I will, this is so stupid they deserve to removed from society entirely, whatever the means so long as it's not as stupid as this shit.

Just off the dome, environmental concerns ABOUND. Then we also get into the fact that the only reason you would need to throw up satellites for this is because you are trying to cover an extremely large area, cause if you just needed a large light cover over an area of even miles it's way less intensive of a process to get a shit ton of really powerful LED flashlights. Those things are bright as hell.

Then getting satellites and rockets up there. I'd bet these are just more garbage threatening all the actually really useful shit up there in 20 years.

Then we have the surprise environmental impact, what happens when we redirect sunlight to an area all through the night, and how much more heat are we pumping into this already way too hot frozen fireball?

[modrobert@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets Perhaps their satellites can be hacked so we can send them into the Sun where they belong.

[skjeggtroll@mastodon.online]

@sundogplanets

Ah yes. Because search and rescue operations are famously almost always performed over flat, open ground when the skies are clear. Nobody ever needs rescuing when the weather is bad or the terrain is difficult, after all.

[mookie@isdream.ing]

@sundogplanets @MisterArix How about the CEO of that stupid company be the first to test this long term by having the lights pointed at their house for a year. Come back and let us know how things are going afterwards.

[antsu@p.antsu.net]

@sundogplanets Apart from all the immediate stupidity, I can't shake the thought that if they can reflect enough light to cover a large area, then there's little stopping them from pointing all the mirrors to a single spot and effectively creating the world's largest magnifying glass. The military would LOVE having a space death ray.

[lenotaire@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets please tell me its CEO's name is not Gustav Graves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day

[misterarix@akkoma.thesandbox.net]

@mookie @sundogplanets Just like the Flock CEO - they will use their own products whether they want to or not.

[kawunngg@mastoart.social]

@sundogplanets
I firmly believe they only came up with the people rescue thing because they needed something positive after so much backlash.

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@antsu The Nazis actually had plans for this! Dark sky expert and space historian @JohnBarentine wrote a little about that here: https://www.darkskyconsulting.com/blog/the-dangers-of-sunlight-as-a-service

[asbestos@pnw.zone]

@sundogplanets
Aside from all the other stupidity, I'm stuck with how foolish this "test" was "we set up a bunch of lights, and people did stuff in the dark using the lights" wow, using lights a night! This totally shows satellite mirrors work and are a good idea.
Also thermal imagers work much better that people's eyes to find lost people.

[asbestos@pnw.zone]

@hydropsyche

@sundogplanets
I'm pretty sure there was some sponsorship. And it doesn't take much to get SAR types out to play with the toys

[asbestos@pnw.zone]

@tubbdoose

@sundogplanets
The American flag is a giveaway. They want military/government $$$

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@sundogplanets Their dedication to the grift, though.

[lufthans@mastodon.social]

@mathieui @sundogplanets how about huge, hot, always on LEDs in all the CEO's bedrooms