What an obviously terrible idea. People are going to try to shoot them down.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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They're naming their test satellite EARENDIL-1. Why do these people always appropriate Tolkien stuff?
Yeah, lets add more energy to the planet. It's not hot enough as is.
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Fuck this billionaire bullshit that will be abused to hell and back. First off, this is WAY more complicated than these bozos imagine, it's like the "datacenters in space!!!" stupidity. Yet these assholes will invest in it, pollution will have been had from here to hell and back, and it'll fail because this is not just "dump a mirror in orbit"
But let's say they get it done, just for a second
What do you think will happen? What would happen to nature, animals, humans, and even weather patterns To add to that, Do you really believe byhis would be abused to fuck over some marginalized group or country?
Ok so hear me out on this. A real combat deathmatch in a cage where we put these guys in with the SRM Climate Change dudes in a fight to the death. The winner decides if we cool the earth using srm, or if we heat the earth making solar power viable 24/7 by these dudes.
Orbital mirrors, sure… definitely not a weapon for burning stuff with sunlight from space!