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Startup says it wants some more cocaine and wants to know if you know anyone with some more cocaine because some more cocaine would be fuckin' great right now holy shit
I could do a bump, ya know, if you got a little extra.
It's a grift. They came to steal VC money.
This gives me a great idea for a new startup! I'm going to put a giant mirror in space, and you'll need to pay me to turn OFF the sunlight at night.
The people behind that startup are in tears strangling each other wishing they thought of this.
I'd like to have darkness during daytime. I'm not sure I would pay for it, but I'd like it very much.
Slaps roof of curtains
slaps curtains off of the rod
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Someone watched an old Bond film.
Someone watched an old Bond film.
old
Die Another Day (2002)
You fucking watch yourself, alright? You're on thin ice.
That was 47 years ago.
Your math is off. It’s closer to 67 years ago. You forgot to carry the 2
It's so dumb uggh. Getting the same power output as the sun would need a MINIMUM surface area of the size of the area on earth it would illuminate.
So say the use case is extending daylight time in Anchorage, Alaska during winter. You would need a mirror that has MINIMUM surface area that of Anchorage. Somehow, it would need to be in an orbit that can reliably reflect light to Anchorage at all points.
Then, it would most likely be in low Earth orbit as putting it higher would require bigger mirrors. However, if u are in LEO, u are also moving incredibly fast. You would thus need an array of these super large mirrors.
All of this for what? Something that an led can do incredibly easily?
Would it not be possible to deflect it through a lens? Couldn't that increase the spread area significantly and because of the contrast at night you would only need a fraction of the light intensity to make an area feel well lit?
You don’t need a lens, just a differently shaped mirror. Their point is just that the light you capture is based on the mirror’s surface area, so if you are selling sunlight-equivalent amounts of light you would need a mirror of equal area to that you are selling. You would not need such a large mirror to sell an area of dimmer light, and you would not need a lens.
- A convex mirror could work, sure. A lens would be impossible to construct for the size necessary.
- I don't get what u mean by "contrast at night", but sure - let's assume that you would need 5% of the power at noon. You would still need a mirror with a surface area of 5% of the area you are illuminating.
What could possibly go wrong?
Certainly not blinding someone stargazing as it reorients.
Okay, luddite. All of the studies resoundingly show that pointing a giant space mirror down toward our collective homes is a great idea.
Modern day startups: lays out a dumb idea.
Valuation: $3B
Startups: The most dystopian shit imaginable
VCs: "You son of a bitch, I'm in!"
Amateur astronomers be like. Cant you just sell me a cloudless night sky instead?
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It'll heat the planet up a lot more too if it scales up
Let's make global warming worse.
Not exactly a new idea. Soviets tried it. Expenses were huge, and something that nobody thought of much back then is that nature would surely found itself hanging upside down...
Ants can probably tell you this is not a good idea
Laugh all you want. But this will be the only thing that saves us during the 2066 vampire wars.
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Babe wake up Dr Evil just hatched a new scheme
Nobody will invest in this until they throw some "AI" in there.
Just looking at this has me feeling really concerned when it comes to the environment and nocturnal species.
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Icarus (Die Another Day) is real?
I thought they'd be selling the oxygen before they get to the sunlight.
Have you not seen the literally cans of oxygen they now sell? I see them every time I go to my pharmacy
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There was a Sonic X episode about this concept...
This is horrifying idea
My sleep after this: 📉📉📉
Luckily it's just an attempt to scam some dumb VCs
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