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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Lookorex@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
WERNSTROM!!!
Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Like stealing candy from a baby…
mPony@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
I could do a bump, ya know, if you got a little extra.
gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a grift. They came to steal VC money.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Slaps roof of curtains
camr_on@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
slaps curtains off of the rod
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cryxtalix@programming.dev 1 week ago
Someone watched an old Bond film.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks ago
What could old possibly go wrong?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Certainly not blinding someone stargazing as it reorients.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
Modern day startups: lays out a dumb idea.
Valuation: $3B
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Startups: The most dystopian shit imaginable
VCs: “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”
regrub@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’ll heat the planet up a lot more too if it scales up
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
New from Ronco! Now you can roast both sides at once!
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
New startup using cloud seeding tech to create Gatorade rain!
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Amateur astronomers be like. Cant you just sell me a cloudless night sky instead?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
Let’s make global warming worse.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Laugh all you want. But this will be the only thing that saves us during the 2066 vampire wars.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I want to sun my asshole during night hours.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
You’re doing it wrong silly, you charge your butthole with moonlight.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
Idiot! Just don’t invite them in.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Wernstrom!
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh, that’s a little bright
SteefLem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ants can probably tell you this is not a good idea
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Just looking at this has me feeling really concerned when it comes to the environment and nocturnal species.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Nobody will invest in this until they include some “AI” in there.
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Babe wake up Dr Evil just hatched a new scheme
RockyC@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Goldeneye is real?
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
This is horrifying idea
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Exec@pawb.social 1 week ago
There was a Sonic X episode about this concept…
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Luckily it’s just an attempt to scam some dumb VCs
potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
My sleep after this: 📉📉📉
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Imagine paying to have light over a rival’s apartment XD
potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
My opps sleep after this: 📉📉📉
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can we also pay to have people cast into utter darkness?
Just like, informationally speaking, my friend was asking.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 week 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 1 week ago
So kind.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Astronomer hate this simple trick to ruin all observations.
squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Please, no.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week 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 1 week ago
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borth@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
🤣🤣 literally the only reaction to this!!
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 week 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.