FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

Want some reminders of how fucking terrible this idea is?

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/true-cost-solar-power-night-reflect-orbital/

https://theconversation.com/a-us-startup-plans-to-deliver-sunlight-on-demand-after-dark-can-it-work-and-would-we-want-it-to-264323

https://darksky.org/news/organizational-statement-reflect-orbital/

Journalists: please write about how dangerous this is.

Lawyers (especially if you're based in the US): please help fight this, it will take legal action now

[fullywoolly@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets what a bullshit cop out... It falls out of our purview. Time to take a little wider scope assholes

[tlariv@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets
Oh, guess we won't need torches since there won't be fucking darkness anymore.

[politemenace@social.ridetrans.it]

@sundogplanets We really need the model rocket nerds to start getting into modeling anti-satellite missiles.

[linuxfiend@gts.linuxfiend.net]

@sundogplanets Have these people never heard of batteries?

[crazypedia@mypocketpals.online]

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I hope it blows up on the pad. ​​

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

GREAT guess I'm not going to sleep tonight either. Maybe there will be auroras. I need to enjoy the night sky as much as I can now, I guess.

Fuck you, FCC, for approving this. Fuck Reflect Orbital and all the copycats it's going to spawn. Fuck techbros everywhere. Fuck venture capitalists for funding this destructive, useless bullshit.

[quephird@tech.lgbt]

@sundogplanets

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[lastrobot@writing.exchange]

@sundogplanets Just awful

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@sundogplanets

First orbital space weapon

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@sundogplanets This is really bad, but I also can't wait for some kid to log in to their system with default admin credentials & vaporize the white house or something with the unmatched power of the sun & continue doing so until the mirror satellites are made illegal, globally, forever.

[stagerabbit@famichiki.jp]

@sundogplanets Modest Proposal: we get the best Irish scientists together to create a spud cannon capable of hitting objects in low earth orbit and then fire it directly into everyone responsible.

Preferably all standing in a straight line so we don't have to waste a lot of good potatoes.

[mast0d0nphan@beige.party]

@sundogplanets [REDACTED] all the people who sponsored this shit.

[nantucketlit@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I saw this in Die Another Day.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets turns out a great way to get billionaires sold on renewables is to add a novel source of global warming to the proposition

[bstacey@icosahedron.website]

@PoliteMenace @sundogplanets purely for research purposes

[beamsandbows@mastodon.sdf.org]

@sundogplanets can I just beat the unholy ribbons and bows out of today? I am so tired.

[jfmezei@cosocial.ca]

@sundogplanets This was done before. Suggest you watch the documentary "Die Another Day". Some north korean launched it and when the Americans sent missiles to destroy it, he just aimed his mirror at the missiles and fried them.

The mirror was demoed at some ice castle in Iceland when he benevolently lit up just the castle at night to impress the guests, but then focused mirror to try to fry some british spy out to disable mirror.

Curiious which international body could stop this.

[ameliasbrain@mstdn.ca]

@sundogplanets Respect to the author/editors at PCMag for that headline, though. "FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Giant Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate"
Really gets the main point across.

(Although they maybe could have also included how the powering solar panels proposal is completely unrealistic.)

[dtauvdiodr@c.im]

And the billionaires push the Earth closer and closer to Trantor.