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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

WERNSTROM!!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Like stealing candy from a baby…

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

slaps curtains off of the rod

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone watched an old Bond film.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Certainly not blinding someone stargazing as it reorients.

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

Modern day startups: lays out a dumb idea.

Valuation: $3B

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Startups: The most dystopian shit imaginable

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Let's make global warming worse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago

Ants can probably tell you this is not a good idea

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Babe wake up Dr Evil just hatched a new scheme

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Icarus (Die Another Day) is real?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

This is horrifying idea

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My sleep after this: πŸ“‰πŸ“‰πŸ“‰

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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