The FCC space mirror approval allows Reflect Orbital to test artificial sunlight despite warnings about astronomy and safety.
  • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1 hour

    i wonder how easy it would be to build something that can reach the orbit and collide with the damn thing to deorbit it, if this nightmare ever becomes reality

  • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
    11 hours

    This thing will never materialize. It’s a vapor-project for stupid people to pour money into.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    13 hours

    For as long as there has been humankind, we have gazed up at the night sky, for comfort, for romance, for meditation, for curiosity, etc. It has been a core human experience, evolutionarily hard-wired into our humanity and psyche.

    Now these Sociopathic Ferengi are going to steal that experience from every future human being, for profit.

    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9 hours

      Reminds me of the horrific ending to the movie Hancock (2008)

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
      14 hours

      Naw, the Simpsons was implying a far more useful sun blocking device. What the mirror is has much more impact and is in space.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 hours

    I was just postulating to a friend, that if we built a huge array of solar panels, set out in a pattern not unlike solar sails, and deployed them out in-between the Earth and the Sun, we could block an appreciable amount of heat, which might act as a way to slow down climate change on our planet. Additionally this array could be connected in a grid, making it a huge space station, and energy source, where we could potentially use it as a base to start collecting and mining asteroids.

    And then I read about these dumb mother fuckers who want to redirect sunlight back at the earth, making climate change worse, all to replace a couple flood lights? How fucking stupid is the person who brought this to reality? Jesus fucking christ.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 hours

    fcc is not a science based department. they should have no say at all over environmental endeavors

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 hours

      They don’t, which is why they can’t prohibit this satellite. It meets all their requirements regarding radio interference.

      The Satellite should absolutely be stopped, but the FCC isn’t the agency to do it.

  • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 hours

    It would be a lot cheaper and easier to just stop burning fossil fuels. We could just take the money for this and invest in renewables.

  • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    Why the fuck is every dystopian industrialist naming their shit after Tolkein? Does an artificial moon designed to fuck the natural order sound like something he would want to endorse?

    • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21 hours

      They don’t have the literacy / abstract thinking necessary to understand themes and like the ‘vibes’ of nerdy things being cool now.

    • Mearcfara@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21 hours

      Elon likely never read Foundation, and it’s frustrating that he’s getting credit for it.

      I do firmly put that on the people not doing their research, though. We should absolutely be bullying the shit out of people for being disingenuous in this way.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1 day

    thankfully the us is the only country that has a sky so only their government’s approval is needed 😁👍

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      This is an important point, and partly why you’re not seeing ads up in the night sky just yet.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21 hours

    So uh… Florida made “Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities” illegal.

    So are they going to launch that into space from another state, because one would think launching such out of cape canaveral would be off limits

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18 hours

      “Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities” illegal.

      That’s only when “the Jews TM” do it. When its capitalism then fine! See they are still spewing carbon into the atmosphere in Florida but they haven’t banned internal combustion engines, and they keep burning coal!