I fucking hate this company.

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

I fucking hate this company. This is so fucking stupid for so many reasons.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/mount-whitney-reflect-orbital-22478878.php

[papa@wheeli.social]

@sundogplanets

Isn't this test just proving that we *don't* need their satellites? If you can accomplish the same thing with some ground-based spotlights, even on a mountain, then what's the point?

[tubbdoose@mas.to]

@sundogplanets How many reflect orbital staff does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

LMAO

[hydropsyche@ecoevo.social]

@sundogplanets So much nonsense. "We put up spotlights on a mountain to show you how our technology that is nothing like spotlights on a mountain will work". I loved the S&R folks just being completely disinterested in the technology that's supposedly for their benefit.

[aud@spectre.asta.lgbt]

@sundogplanets what were they even testing?! "How annoying their mirror would be"?!

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

Anybody have dark sky advocate connections around the Lone Pine, CA area? Can the town slap them with some nuisance lighting fines? That would be funny.

[mathieui@piaille.fr]

@sundogplanets can we put always-on huge-ass LEDs around the CEO's house, and crowdfund the electricity bill?

[arisummerland@beige.party]

@sundogplanets

I am right there with you.

[lcwheeler@ecoevo.social]

@sundogplanets I'm so goddamn tired of the stupidity.

[worldtravelerall7@mastodon.world]

@sundogplanets

Yes! 𝗬𝗲𝘀! A 1000 times 𝙔𝙚𝙨!!!!🤬

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@sundogplanets

Talk to the folks at OVRO? Although the radio telescopes are most of the way from Lone Pine to Bishop.

[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.