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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago (1 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

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you break a mirror satellite it’s like 10 years of bad luck for the whole planet.

[–] janonymous@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's 6.623 × 10^13 kilometers of bad luck!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Given the ridiculous financial gymnastics propping up the AI industry, I'm not sure that "not economically viable" is always a failure state for a business any longer.

It hasn't been since at least "too big to fail."