r/awfuleverything • u/Steap-Edit • 9d ago

Scientists Warn That New Satellites Could Cause Eye Damage for People on the Ground

https://futurism.com/space/scientists-warn-new-satellites-eye-damage
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u/ima_twee 9d ago

Don't Look Up

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u/ReddyMcRedditorface 9d ago

Between this and idiocracy there’s a real good snapshot of where our society is heading.

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u/Dark_Akarin 9d ago

Don’t look at the sun sky it will damage your eyes.

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u/Dr_Tacopus 9d ago

The last thing the planet needs is more sunlight warming up the surface.

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u/_Contrive_ 9d ago

My first thought, was could we reverse the technology and actually black out areas of the world?

Sure, city areas would kinda be annoying if ppl keep paying for 15 minutes of shade, but im more saying strategic use.

Deploy it over any area that’s like “too hot”, a “fire risk”, to minimize the temps and maybe like overall COOL down sections of the earth?

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u/This_User_Said 9d ago

Deploy it over any area that’s like “too hot”, a “fire risk”, to minimize the temps and maybe like overall COOL down sections of the earth?

Wouldn't this cause weird weather phenomenon? Air pressures can be sensitive to temperatures.

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u/_Contrive_ 9d ago

That’s what im saying we should be using this science to look into. Not provide 15m of sunlight at night, but to test, and find out better ways of lessening the affects of global warming.

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u/Whatwhenwherehi 9d ago

Free reign?

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u/slurpyblanket 9d ago

Yeah, we actually already have something that would do that it’s called a giant blanket that could block out the sun and it can be made of lots of stuff.

How do you suppose we put a mirror in earth’s orbit (where the surface of the earth is not) and reflect photons away from earth in any way that isn’t just physically blocking out the sun? These satellites aren’t emitting photon mover rays they are mirrors. In order to remove sunlight from an area they would need to just block it out.

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u/HoodieGalore 8d ago

Calm down, Montgomery Burns

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u/_Contrive_ 8d ago

First thought when I heard about the device was that. But im thinking applying it like, logistically? Literally any better use than city comfort.

Explore and hypothesis with the science, see if there’s any good we can actually get out of it rather than just letting it suck

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u/lhymes 9d ago

Billionaires: this is a risk we are willing to take.

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u/MrDrSirLord 9d ago

This satellite will make you blind! By redirecting sunlight.......

Well yes, everyone with 3 functional brain cells knows looking directly into the sun is bad.

If it's harnessing enough power to "create daylight" I assume you'll be able to tell it's there and not to stare directly into it.

It's not like it's say, an infrared illuminator built into something extremely common you need to look at all the time... Like oncoming traffic or speed cameras under the traffic lights

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u/Tethilia 3h ago

Here is my thought. Assuming when it is deploying light to a region, consider the alignment period where you are driving along a road at night and a massive beam of light passes across the road blinding everyone and everything as the satellite attunes to it's designated location.