It just goes to show you how stupid people at the top really are.
They don’t understand scale at all, so they propose something like this, someone goes “uh… Guys? Know those banners they fly at the beach? Those are like the size of a neighborhood road, and the plane flies low so you can read it. You’re talking about building megastructures”
And then they just… Never really acknowledge that the math doesn’t math. They just keep going around proposing it, because it’s this cool idea they came up with all on their own and definitely wasn’t part of a cautionary sci-fi tale
Fuck, I’d take some sunlight in the winter months. ~5 hours of sunlight is brutal. It’s dark when you go to work and dark when you go back home. Only time to get sunlight is if you decide to get lunch.
They’ve been working on that already, hasn’t panned out yet though.
https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/russia-wants-to-advertise-in-space-with-orbital-billboards/
https://www.space.com/pepsi-drops-orbital-billboard-plans.html
https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-orbital-billboard-tiny
I’m sure they’ll just keep throwing money at it till it happens.
Here’s one for … selling sunlight, via a network of sats with mirrors:
https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/reflect-orbital-us-firm-selling-sunlight-after-dark-13808980.html
It just goes to show you how stupid people at the top really are.
They don’t understand scale at all, so they propose something like this, someone goes “uh… Guys? Know those banners they fly at the beach? Those are like the size of a neighborhood road, and the plane flies low so you can read it. You’re talking about building megastructures”
And then they just… Never really acknowledge that the math doesn’t math. They just keep going around proposing it, because it’s this cool idea they came up with all on their own and definitely wasn’t part of a cautionary sci-fi tale
Fuck, I’d take some sunlight in the winter months. ~5 hours of sunlight is brutal. It’s dark when you go to work and dark when you go back home. Only time to get sunlight is if you decide to get lunch.