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      I’d learn towards it being that they learned about Dyson sphere. And didn’t really understand as tech bros do.

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    Do we not remember when futurama tried this and accidently lasered a convention?

    On a more serious note, how is it fair if say a neighbouring business orders this service and now what, your whole neighbourhood just doesn’t get night time anymore? The local climate just gets a few degrees hotter, no biggie?

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    This has to be a crash grab. Like it’s absurd, not only can I not think why you would want this service I wonder how the logistics of moving it to a location and pissing off people that don’t want it to be daylight.

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    we have enough shit floating around in orbit, let alone adding a fucking mirror.

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      Facts.

      If we had a functioning government we’d make these billion-dollar space boondoggles clean up their own shit.

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    The problem with CO2 is that it traps energy radiated from the earth, preventing it from passing through the atmosphere and back into the sky. Now we’re going to send down more energy?

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      The good thing is that there’s not even a chance this idiotic thing will ever be built.

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        I think they should build it, but use it to reflect some darkness down on the bright side, rather than sunlight down on the dark side.

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    Literally the plot of a James Bond villain. The best news is that this shit will never work and it will only serve to evaporate the wealth of some overly-moneyed idiots.

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    I hope that when this happens, ASAT-missiles are common enough that I’ll be able to get one.

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      If I wake up at 1AM and it’s daylight because my neighbor paid 1bn for some mirror time I’m becoming a terrorist

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    I remember Russians talking about space billboards at some point.

    Glad that never came off the ground.

    Imagine a gigantic glowing billboard and passing over at night.