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[-] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 87 points 3 months ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 3 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.

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[-] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 72 points 3 months ago

Did this dude get VC $ by presenting The Simpsons "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" wtfff is this nonsense 🙄

[-] Lookorex@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago

WERNSTROM!!!

[-] Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

Like stealing candy from a baby…

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 69 points 3 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 10 points 3 months ago

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

[-] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 55 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] symthetics@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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

[-] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 53 points 3 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 28 points 3 months ago
[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

slaps curtains off of the rod

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[-] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 38 points 3 months ago

Someone watched an old Bond film.

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

Someone watched an old Bond film.

old

Die Another Day (2002)

You fucking watch yourself, alright? You're on thin ice.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago
[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 5 points 3 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 14 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.

[-] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 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.
[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What could possibly go wrong?

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 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.

Modern day startups: lays out a dumb idea.

Valuation: $3B

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Startups: The most dystopian shit imaginable

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

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 30 points 3 months ago

Amateur astronomers be like. Cant you just sell me a cloudless night sky instead?

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[-] regrub@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

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

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago

Let's make global warming worse.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago
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[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Ants can probably tell you this is not a good idea

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 15 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

[-] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Laugh all you want. But this will be the only thing that saves us during the 2066 vampire wars.

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[-] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Babe wake up Dr Evil just hatched a new scheme

[-] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Just looking at this has me feeling really concerned when it comes to the environment and nocturnal species.

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[-] RockyC@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Icarus (Die Another Day) is real?

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 3 months ago

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

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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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[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 9 points 3 months ago

My sleep after this: 📉📉📉

[-] ianhclark510 10 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Exec@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

This is horrifying idea

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago
[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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

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