Did this dude get VC $ by presenting The Simpsons “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” wtfff is this nonsense 🙄
Startup Says It'll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime
Submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/the-byte/startup-space-mirror-sunlight-night
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c0smokram3r@midwest.social 2 months ago
Lookorex@lemm.ee 2 months ago
WERNSTROM!!!
Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Like stealing candy from a baby…
mPony@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I could do a bump, ya know, if you got a little extra.
gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a grift. They came to steal VC money.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I’d like to have darkness during daytime. I’m not sure I would pay for it, but I’d like it very much.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Slaps roof of curtains
camr_on@lemmy.world 2 months ago
slaps curtains off of the rod
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cryxtalix@programming.dev 2 months ago
Someone watched an old Bond film.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Someone watched an old Bond film.
old
Die Another Day (2002)
You fucking watch yourself, alright? You’re on thin ice.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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?
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 2 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.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 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.
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What could old possibly go wrong?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Certainly not blinding someone stargazing as it reorients.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 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.
Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev 2 months ago
Modern day startups: lays out a dumb idea.
Valuation: $3B
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Startups: The most dystopian shit imaginable
VCs: “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”
regrub@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’ll heat the planet up a lot more too if it scales up
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
New from Ronco! Now you can roast both sides at once!
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
New startup using cloud seeding tech to create Gatorade rain!
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Amateur astronomers be like. Cant you just sell me a cloudless night sky instead?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The space mirror is only going to enhance the night sky by better lighting up everything else. And since it’s a mirror, you get double the star goodness for whatever you want to see!
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
You mean zero stars because many nights the moon alone provides enough reflection to blind the sky essentially.
I was an adult before i learned that in actual darkness we can see the andromeda system and the beautiful colors of our own galaxy at large with our naked eye.
I used to think pictures like these required super expansive special camaras… and to be fair i was correct in that assessment. But i failed to realize the ultimate light sensor is simply our own eyes.
The sky is beautiful, its sad how hard it is to catch a real glimpse of it in proper light contrast
MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Let’s make global warming worse.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 2 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
joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Wernstrom!
SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, that’s a little bright
SteefLem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ants can probably tell you this is not a good idea
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Laugh all you want. But this will be the only thing that saves us during the 2066 vampire wars.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to sun my asshole during night hours.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You’re doing it wrong silly, you charge your butthole with moonlight.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Idiot! Just don’t invite them in.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Nobody will invest in this until they include some “AI” in there.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just looking at this has me feeling really concerned when it comes to the environment and nocturnal species.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Well unless the mirror is 20km across, they won’t notice because the whole idea is insane.
This is like the Romans thinking they are going to build aircraft, we are no way we are near the level of technology required to do this. This is like stage 2 civilization level stuff.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh okay, it’s just that I feel attached to the woodlands and find comfort being in the middle of the forest, and seeing what is going on here made me feel really concerned for the environment and nocturnal species. Like, what if you happen to be an animal that is on the prowl or is active at night and all of a sudden its daylight due to sunlight being reflected from a mirror in space?
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How would it work if it’s not that large, though? They could only sell sunlight to people who are within the target radius, but that would be very temporary
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Babe wake up Dr Evil just hatched a new scheme
RockyC@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Goldeneye is real?
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Exec@pawb.social 2 months ago
There was a Sonic X episode about this concept…
potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 2 months ago
My sleep after this: 📉📉📉
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Imagine paying to have light over a rival’s apartment XD
potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 2 months ago
My opps sleep after this: 📉📉📉
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can we also pay to have people cast into utter darkness?
Just like, informationally speaking, my friend was asking.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
This is horrifying idea
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Luckily it’s just an attempt to scam some dumb VCs
YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 months ago
This has been debunked like 20x over…
I’d say do some research before posting hogwash, but hey… it’s Ozma.
return2ozma@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So kind.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Astronomer hate this simple trick to ruin all observations.
squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please, no.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
if it was cheap and fast it could be used for trolling, a perfect example of a bad idea that has good applications.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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borth@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
🤣🤣 literally the only reaction to this!!
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My startup is going to rent sunlight interceptors that block the extra sunlight sattelite beams that your neighbour rented and what is keeping you awake all night.