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      I’d learn towards it being that they learned about Dyson sphere. And didn’t really understand as tech bros do.

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    Do we not remember when futurama tried this and accidently lasered a convention?

    On a more serious note, how is it fair if say a neighbouring business orders this service and now what, your whole neighbourhood just doesn’t get night time anymore? The local climate just gets a few degrees hotter, no biggie?

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    This has to be a crash grab. Like it’s absurd, not only can I not think why you would want this service I wonder how the logistics of moving it to a location and pissing off people that don’t want it to be daylight.

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    we have enough shit floating around in orbit, let alone adding a fucking mirror.

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      Facts.

      If we had a functioning government we’d make these billion-dollar space boondoggles clean up their own shit.

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    Literally the plot of a James Bond villain. The best news is that this shit will never work and it will only serve to evaporate the wealth of some overly-moneyed idiots.

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    I hope that when this happens, ASAT-missiles are common enough that I’ll be able to get one.

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      If I wake up at 1AM and it’s daylight because my neighbor paid 1bn for some mirror time I’m becoming a terrorist

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    I remember Russians talking about space billboards at some point.

    Glad that never came off the ground.

    Imagine a gigantic glowing billboard and passing over at night.