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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did this dude get VC $ by presenting The Simpsons "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" wtfff is this nonsense πŸ™„

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

WERNSTROM!!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Like stealing candy from a baby…

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I could do a bump, ya know, if you got a little extra.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a grift. They came to steal VC money.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The people behind that startup are in tears strangling each other wishing they thought of this.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd like to have darkness during daytime. I'm not sure I would pay for it, but I'd like it very much.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

slaps curtains off of the rod

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone watched an old Bond film.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone watched an old Bond film.

old

Die Another Day (2002)

You fucking watch yourself, alright? You're on thin ice.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Your math is off. It’s closer to 67 years ago. You forgot to carry the 2

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
  • 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.
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Certainly not blinding someone stargazing as it reorients.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Okay, luddite. All of the studies resoundingly show that pointing a giant space mirror down toward our collective homes is a great idea.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Modern day startups: lays out a dumb idea.

Valuation: $3B

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Startups: The most dystopian shit imaginable

VCs: "You son of a bitch, I'm in!"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Amateur astronomers be like. Cant you just sell me a cloudless night sky instead?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It'll heat the planet up a lot more too if it scales up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

New from Ronco! Now you can roast both sides at once!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Let's make global warming worse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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...

Znamya Project

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Ants can probably tell you this is not a good idea

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Laugh all you want. But this will be the only thing that saves us during the 2066 vampire wars.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nobody will invest in this until they throw some "AI" in there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Babe wake up Dr Evil just hatched a new scheme

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Just looking at this has me feeling really concerned when it comes to the environment and nocturnal species.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Icarus (Die Another Day) is real?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I thought they'd be selling the oxygen before they get to the sunlight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

There was a Sonic X episode about this concept...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This is horrifying idea

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Luckily it's just an attempt to scam some dumb VCs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My sleep after this: πŸ“‰πŸ“‰πŸ“‰

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imagine paying to have light over a rival’s apartment XD

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