New comic on space mirrors

[ilust606@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen
Broligarchs tampering with the sun.

Related: Year-round DST has serious drawbacks – especially if you live in the northwest corner of a time zone.

#Sun #DST #broligarchs

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5969260-what-permanent-daylight-saving-time-would-look-like-in-your-state/

[alex_p_roe@mastodon.world]

@jensorensen Hashtag #arrgh

[tbehrens@kanoa.de]

@jensorensen Good that blocking the sun isn‘t as easy as reflecting it. Though bad, that reflecting the sun is that easy.

[hyc@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen the energy execs got pissed off by this cartoon I guess

[selvari21106@mastodon.social]

@hyc @jensorensen I would guess that they took it as a challenge

[grepe@ieji.de]

@jensorensen burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me hold my beer...

[chavestoteles@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen Literally the (classic) simpsons predicted this shit.

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen THANK YOU! Sharing with my astronomer friends who are fighting this as hard as we can!

[glutto@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen

And with a different focus they can make a space laser, which the MAGA nutcases were flipping out about a while ago.

[ivorytusk@kolektiva.social]

@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.

[ovoao@mastodon.social]

@jensorensen

After this cartoon I can see the act to abolish daylight saving time in a whole new light!

[hyc@mastodon.social]

@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.

[dougjayne@mastodon.social]

@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.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@jensorensen This is not funny at all.

[passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social]

@hyc @ivorytusk @jensorensen only 1.5% of the human body is calcium. Pretty useless without a skeleton aren’t we?

[hyc@mastodon.social]

@passwordsarehard4 @ivorytusk @jensorensen nobody said that 1% wasn't essential. But getting adequate quantities isn't really a big deal.

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@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

#Resist #fascism with #physics.

[thriftwicker@mastodon.social]

@Chavestoteles @jensorensen Since the dawn of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.

[mifoodie@social.vivaldi.net]

@ChemicalEyeGuy @jensorensen

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!)

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@Chavestoteles @jensorensen There are literally two Bond movies doing this, one in 1971 and one in 2002.