New comic on space mirrors
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen Literally the (classic) simpsons predicted this shit.
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen THANK YOU! Sharing with my astronomer friends who are fighting this as hard as we can!
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New comic on space mirrors
And with a different focus they can make a space laser, which the MAGA nutcases were flipping out about a while ago.
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@jensorensen the energy execs got pissed off by this cartoon I guess
@hyc @jensorensen some rare earths are needed for solar panels, and china has kinda cornered that market. That may just be due to inaction of others though.
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New comic on space mirrors
After this cartoon I can see the act to abolish daylight saving time in a whole new light!
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@hyc @jensorensen some rare earths are needed for solar panels, and china has kinda cornered that market. That may just be due to inaction of others though.
@ivorytusk @jensorensen probably only a temporary issue. The primary ingredient in PV cells is still just sand. Everything else is less than 1% of the solar cell.
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen I haven't looked into this business model very seriously but I'm assuming the orbital dynamics don't make sense. You're either going to have to park these things way far away, at which they will be uselessly dim, or make a constellation of them, with giant sails being dragged down by our atmosphere at a rate that would make a Starlink engineer blush.
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen This is not funny at all.
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@ivorytusk @jensorensen probably only a temporary issue. The primary ingredient in PV cells is still just sand. Everything else is less than 1% of the solar cell.
@hyc @ivorytusk @jensorensen only 1.5% of the human body is calcium. Pretty useless without a skeleton aren’t we?
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@hyc @ivorytusk @jensorensen only 1.5% of the human body is calcium. Pretty useless without a skeleton aren’t we?
@passwordsarehard4 @ivorytusk @jensorensen nobody said that 1% wasn't essential. But getting adequate quantities isn't really a big deal.
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen How many laser pointers targeting a #SpaceMirror would it take to disrupt its necessarily precise aim, if not alter its orbit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
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@jensorensen Literally the (classic) simpsons predicted this shit.
@Chavestoteles @jensorensen Since the dawn of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.
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@jensorensen How many laser pointers targeting a #SpaceMirror would it take to disrupt its necessarily precise aim, if not alter its orbit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
This should be the next XKCD’s What If video (look that up on YouTube if you have no idea what I’m talking about!)
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@jensorensen Literally the (classic) simpsons predicted this shit.
@Chavestoteles @jensorensen There are literally two Bond movies doing this, one in 1971 and one in 2002.
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@jensorensen I haven't looked into this business model very seriously but I'm assuming the orbital dynamics don't make sense. You're either going to have to park these things way far away, at which they will be uselessly dim, or make a constellation of them, with giant sails being dragged down by our atmosphere at a rate that would make a Starlink engineer blush.
@DougJayne @jensorensen
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I see a couple of services we can offer for a competitive market. Like "your company head-quarters not being razed" as a service. The cost is actually very small. You just have to convey a couple of plans to the shredder (yes, all copies) and never talk about them again ever.
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen And guess who owns Space ?
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New comic on space mirrors
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Brilliant!
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen do investors really believe this is a good idea?
A mirror with the area x is directed in a way so it directs sunlight into area y. But with y > x, wouldn't this just be some dim light? The mirror doesn't magically increase the sunlight.
