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[–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nah, don't get too worked out over it.

It can't be economically viable either, so as soon as that company stops gifting investors out of their money, it will just disappear and the mirror will fall back into Earth.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am worried about them screwing it up and having the thing explode in orbit

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

    Ideally the investors figure out what's wrong before the company starts launching mirrors into orbit

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