• @Agent641
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      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.

  • CO5MO ✨
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    772 months ago

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

  • @mPony
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    712 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
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      122 months ago

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

  • @gaiussabinus
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    642 months ago

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

  • Chozo
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    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
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      122 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    562 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      232 months ago

      Someone watched an old Bond film.

      old

      Die Another Day (2002)

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

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

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    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      52 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?

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        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 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.
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    What could possibly go wrong?

    • Kairos
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      212 months ago

      Certainly not blinding someone stargazing as it reorients.

    • ivanafterall ☑️
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      Okay, luddite. All of the studies resoundingly show that pointing a giant space mirror down toward our collective homes is a great idea.

    • @Agent641
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      Startups: The most dystopian shit imaginable

      VCs: “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”

    • ivanafterall ☑️
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      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!

      • @[email protected]
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        102 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

        • @[email protected]
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          I grew up in an area that was fairly dark. Probably somewhere between Bortle class 3 and 4 when I was young.

          When I went backpacking in the Rockies, it was like nothing I had ever seen before. The night sky is vast and beautiful, and so full of lights and color. Constellations are hard to make out because there are so many dots to look at, rather than the light being too faint to make out.

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

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

      • y0kai
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        New startup using cloud seeding tech to create Gatorade rain!

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    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