This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
There needs to be an international campaign to harass all of these people until they leave that company. Shame them.
tech bros/hoes solving invented problems.
We know this ain't gonna happen (precisely because of a pesky thing called "laws of physics"), but it's surely paving the way for similar deranged ideas such as "orbital data centers", as this "Sun-as-a-Service" bullshittery moves the Overton window to where techbros want it to be, as well to (failed) attempts on pretending the laws of physics can be bent to capitalist interests.
Even sadder is seeing how other regulatory and space agencies worldwide (你好, 国家航天局! नमस्ते, अंतरिक्ष विभाग!) seem to be so quiet in this regard, as if all these deranged techbro ideas wouldn't affect the skies over there...
It worked many times before - utterly deranged ideas drowned in borrowed money until it worked, or they just cashed out.
Look no further than LLMs.
I recall in Futurama this didn't end well
also in INVINCIBLE.
Eärendil-1
I really doubt Tolkien would be in favour of this.
producing a beam roughly five kilometers wide.
Oh, nice, now they won't need these super expensive helicopters anymore to spot the fleeing ~~leftists~~ terrorists at night.
A small beam a bit brighter than a full moon...
Sounds to me like they want to give a suntan to the coven of witches living in my forest grove.
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?
Damn, that's the timeline where the world got destroyed by a giant laser beam. Well, have a good time, I need to go.
I read about 20 years ago that they were doing this "satellite mirror" thing in Norway in a town nestled between two mountains that rarely saw any sun. I thought it was feasible and incredible and I believed it at the time. After reading this I see I was a victim of even more bullshit claims. Thankfully I only told about fifteen people about this so, not too much fake news damage done.
I feel like this the start of daylight/nighttime subscriptions...
orbiting debris will destroy the mirror so fast, plus solar winds.
space lasers starting wildfires again? /s
It’ll look pretty cool burning up as it crashes…
What?! Nooo we thought that was a fucking joke wtf????
