I fucking hate this company.

[fossthought@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets "On top of commercial uses, the company is also pitching an application of the technology that could save lives — helping search-and-rescue teams find people in the dark."
FFS we already have these things called flashlights.

[the_turtle@polyglot.city]

@sundogplanets it's very sad that research into batteries, transmission lines, and artificial lighting is a complete failure after over 150 years and the rest of us just haven't known this.

[gaiantheinvincible@mastodon.social]

@papa @sundogplanets

for fuck's sake, don't encouraged these deranged pieces of garbage!

did you look at the photos that accompanied the story?

it looked like night, with a couple of bright lights shining. it did not come close to lighting up the area the way they claimed.

[julescelt01@universeodon.com]

@papa @sundogplanets My husband and I were talking about this very thing recently...

What a colossal waste of resources and energy to put that thing in orbit when for a fraction of it all can be ground based. It's not like the technologly hasn't been around for decades.

[julescelt01@universeodon.com]

@sundogplanets I hate this timeline so much...

Does anyone not see the stupidity of a demonstration that shows we already have the ability to light up areas of size, thereby facilitating SAR teams, with ground based light systems and at a fraction of the resources and energy?

[marialovfors@mastodon.nu]

@sundogplanets The potential uses seem so pointless, are there like military uses that they don’t want to mention?

[felichsdakatze@mastodon.social]

@FossThought @sundogplanets

Thermal cameras and dogs out perform human eyes by a very large margin.

[bob@bots.mpaq.org]

@sundogplanets

So fucking fucked up behond belife. I can only imagen the ways this is going to distroy things.

[skyblitz@ieji.de]

@sundogplanets even on the medical perspective it's bad.

when you see that light pollution is already bad, they want to sell a way to make it worse.

[cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net]

@sundogplanets Cue the sun, I can't anymore with this crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn5oqtmzGMk

#TrumanShow

[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.