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Posted on 04/06/2026 4:15:06 PM PDT by Libloather
It’s keeping scientists up at night.
Scientists around the world are sounding the alarm over an ambitious plan to install thousands of mirrors and myriad satellites in space, claiming that it will impact sleep and various ecosystems on a global level.
“The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale,” leaders of the European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS), the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, the Japanese Society for Chronobiology and the Canadian Society for Chronobiology declared in letters to the US Federal Communications Commission The Guardian reported.
They were referring to a James Bond movie-esque proposal by California startup Reflect Orbital to dispatch 50,000 mirrors in low orbit. In theory, these would redirect sunlight to the planet’s night side, potentially powering solar farms after sundown, providing light for rescue workers, and other applications.
The company could illuminate swaths between three and four miles with these cosmic night lights, whose brightness would range “from full moon to full noon,” per the firm. Reflect Orbital is already awaiting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval to launch a test satellite with a 60-foot-wide mirror into space with the potential to get the project off the ground as early as this summer, the New York Times reported.
This celestial “vanity” project coincides with a plan by SpaceX to launch a staggering one million satellites into space to form a veritable constellation of AI data centers, thereby taking a load off their terrestrial counterparts.
Environmentalists warned that these spacey installations would cause a catastrophe back on Earth."
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Reflect Orbital is already awaiting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval to launch a test satellite with a 60-foot-wide mirror into space with the potential to get the project off the ground as early as this summer, the New York Times reported.
Archimedes heat says hold my beer
pure insanity
You can’t get a building permit in California to rebuild a house that existed before the Palisades fire due to presumed environmental concerns, yet this California company wants to implement a plan to control the environmental conditions that would impact the entire earth???
Just like the Greek Myth character of Icarus, such industries will ignore warnings, and fly too close to the sun, melting their virtual wings of wax and feathers, causing most the machinery to fall and sink, uselessly into the sea. An Old World way of saying FAFO.
Just think of the fun if those 50,000 60-foot mirrors were all reflecting sunlight onto a small area. You could burn towns like ants under a magnifying glass.
It is insanity,
The Earth somehow needs Epstein buddy and pervert Dr Bill Gates’ help to survive.
The earth needs the sun. Nothing in fact, needs AI.
Reflecting sunlight back at the Sun will overheat it.
So they will attack global warming by putting us under a magnifying glass. I seem to recall that worked out well for the ants in the anthill when I was a kid.
No to space mirrors and AI.
Both are hideous solutions to non-existing problems.
Hey maybe we could change the climate!
This sound like nonsense. Could be a Money Hole like NASA.
I bet the real plan is to produce giant advertising logos at night. “This night is for Bud Light” with a full sky image of Dylan Mulvaney.
And they have NO idea at all what the actual consequences of such an action could or would be.
All we can hope is that if it becomes a government project it becomes the boondoggle everything else has become and is so ineptly managed that it’s never completed much less started.
When an emp goes off and it tikts 4 degrees....which country will it set ablaze, lol.
I’ve watched Phinius and Ferb; I know exactly what happens.
Yes, yes I am.
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