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FCC approves giant space mirror as astronomers warn of risks to the night sky
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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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?
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this is great!
then again, this thing will be much closer to LEO than the moon, but it would probably still take billions of people to do it to have any impact.
🤷 guess we're just going to need to work on surface to air anti-material projectiles.