New comic on space mirrors
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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 It would cost under $100k to blow up something in low orbit and we could crowd fund it
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@jensorensen this is the first I heard of this. Ain't no way someone is stupid enough to even suggest such a dumb idea.
The massive cost of it, the social backlash, the political and international backlash and just the engineering of it all.
For what? Just to have the giant mirror break because of some 1cm space debris?@OlofKnight It has been not only suggested but formally proposed to and approved by the FCC in the US, despite the social/scientific backlash. See https://theconversation.com/the-u-s-just-approved-a-giant-space-mirror-to-test-sunlight-on-demand-low-earth-orbit-is-getting-weird-283482
Hopefully the initial test fails so miserably and embarrassingly that it bankrupts everyone involved and discourages all potential copycats... but people trying to get VC money seem to be incredibly hard to discourage as they don't actually need a workable product, they just need a concept that VC bros will eat up.
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen this kinda reminds me of Reagan's Star Wars -
New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen SWEET IDEA!!!!! I AM WRITING THIS DOWN!!!
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen @RealGene These fkrs wanna patent the sun.
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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.
Most of the processed rare earths for solar come from China, sure. But the ore they use is usually Australian. You're right - inaction, created a solvable problem.
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@jensorensen literally a Simpsons episode
@noiseician @jensorensen lol Simpson did it
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@jensorensen the energy execs got pissed off by this cartoon I guess
@hyc
Mike Peters should be the one who is pissed by this remake of his 1978 cartoon.
https://media.snopes.com/2021/09/Dayton_Daily_News_Fri__Apr_21__1978_.pdf
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New comic on space mirrors
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Reminds me of a sign I saw in a medical physics lab: " CAUTION! Do not look into laser with remaining eye!" -
New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen : the last one also makes me think that if they can actually cut people off from the sun, it's a great way to render solar panels ineffective.
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New comic on space mirrors
@jensorensen they've done it. They've privatised the sun
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You know, it just occurred to me that those solar satellites could be used as weapons against people on the Earth's surface. Focus the beams from multiple satellites on an area, and you could set it on fire.
@Quasit @jensorensen that happened in some wildfires.
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@wyatt_h_knott @tbehrens @jensorensen maybe. At least they have multiple approaches running on Kessler Syndrome implementation.
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@hyc
Mike Peters should be the one who is pissed by this remake of his 1978 cartoon.
https://media.snopes.com/2021/09/Dayton_Daily_News_Fri__Apr_21__1978_.pdf
@jensorensenHalf a century on.
And those "clever people" with the coal, the oil, the gas and the nuclear failed for five decades to invest in lithium, cobalt, semiconductor wafer technologies, solar panel manufacturing or any other opportunity.
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