@spaceaccordingtoskylar: Who gets to control the darkness of night? A startup in California thinks they do. Let’s talk about it. #Astronomy #space #spacenews #reflectorbital #darksky

Curnette 🇨🇦 :

Anything but eliminate poverty.

spaceaccordingtoskylar :

We’re truly living in the age of just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should

barryhill54 :

Shouldn't we have a right to darkness?

Erik M. Smith :

I’m reminded every day that I’m so glad my wife and I are never having kids

kindNess :

It’s a brilliant idea

Zee-Zone :

I will make it day all the time of you don't pay me 1 billion dollars...

Bennyboy :

Completely insane idea

William du Plooy :

There was an experiment a few years ago on how plants react to 24 hours of light. Turns out they did worse. Plants need a period of rest from photosynthesis also!

TheDude🇨🇦 :

....didnt the mr.burns do this in the simpsons and it turned out terribly, because one billionaire essentially controlled the sun?

Sgotach :

especially bad for wildlife

LionHead :

grimmy_sk :

what about the canadian arctic where they do not see the sun from dec thru january

2L8uLuz :

It is a cool idea but they won't get the license to deploy the satellites anyways. on top of that the thousands per hour cost will end it before it begins. They just eant a larger company to buy them up and walk away

WTFawk :

Reflecting light that has bypassed earth and shining it onto the dark side seems like an incredibly stupid idea given the current climate change crisis

AkashaQuinn 🇨🇦 :

The plants and animals literally depend on the seasons and they need the dark, they need the light if they don’t have enough of each, so many plants and animals are just gonna go extinct.

nothingtoofferhere :

seems like negative effects for a planet whose lifecycles are heavily based on a day night cycles

•filthy little snacks• :

That could be massively weaponised.

BK542 :

Another thing in orbit that may trigger the Kessler cascade event.

gulluxy :

Next wel wil have giant bilboards on the moon

Peters Old Email :

Of course it's dumb really really dumb

Purple Fat-Cat Lady :

So, they want to put MORE sunlight and solar radiation into the earth, all day... when we already have global climate shift caused by human intervention... yeaaah. This wont be used for increasing profits and lore grift based profiteering... sigh.

Kophur :

Seems like a cool idea. It is a toggle, so astronomers will just have to schedule with them.

Adam :

Why change the beauty of earth and how it works more than we already have

Jo :

this stuff will inevitably become a bunch of space junk when the company inevitably goes under

treefish11 :

absolutely not. It will disrupt the temperature balance