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

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.

I'm pretty sure I've heard about this a while ago and the math just doesn't math.

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

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.

I live in the city man, I'm not going to notice shit.

If only we had these things called electric lights.

Yah, I can't see anything that could go wrong with this. /s

unrelated question. if you focus thousands of medium or low wattage lasers to a single point, will their wattage combine to equal that of a high powered laser?

Spotlight, uh, moonlight, uh, eyesore get your fucking aim right 🎶

Constructive dialogue can allow for new technology to succeed without stepping on too many toes. That's the important role social media plays in society-impacting inventions and plans.

Let's beam down more heat! We totally need that on our rapidly heating planet.

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

The Federal Communications Commission approved Reflect Orbital’s plan to launch Eärendil-1, an experimental satellite carrying an 18-meter-wide reflective surface. The mirror would redirect sunlight toward a targeted area after dark, producing a beam roughly five kilometers wide.

The July 9 authorization applies to one demonstration satellite, not the enormous constellation the California company eventually hopes to build. Reflect Orbital has described plans for more than 50,000 mirrors by 2035, creating what it calls “sunlight on demand.”