Hi journalists! Before I start targeted emails to journalists I've talked to before, I'm just going to put this out here and see if it works:
Now that Reflect Orbital https://www.reflectorbital.com/ has officially filed to launch their first satellite, does anyone want to write an article about what a stupid, useless, potentially destructive and harmful idea this is? I would be happy to be interviewed about all the ways this is a very very bad idea and why I'm absolutely livid that they're launching.
@sundogplanets “Sunlight on demand”?? Ugh. May a giant piece of space trash hit it. That dumb team reads like they’re gearing up for a reality tv show and not tampering with our entire planet.
So, not too worried
I'm reminded of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. At one point a "soletta" is launched, which allows them to focus intensified sunlight on selected areas of the Martian surface, but which is promptly misused for, shall we say, suboptimal purposes.
