Truth is at least as strange as fiction... China now controls the "moon"

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

I'm just offended they didn't name it after the moon goddess, Princess Luna.

Officials in Chengdu, a city of 14 million people in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, announced plans to place a satellite in orbit by 2020 capable of reflecting sunlight onto its streets at night, claiming it will be bright enough to entirely replace street lights.  

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/china-launch-artificial-apos-moon-181705664.html

[Usager 431]

People at june 2020 complaining they cant sleep because of the light xD

Im very interested in the results

[cuteycindyhoney 13,283]

I read that article! Russia was going to do something similar a few years ago, but a collision in space wrecked their artificial moon before it could deploy..  

[DonMaguz 1,023]

2 hours ago, BornAgainBrony said:

I'm just offended they didn't name it after the moon goddess, Princess Luna.

You got it backwards, 'luna' is the latin word for 'moon' and romance languages also use it, some with slight variations. Princess Luna's name comes from the word, not the other way around.

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

6 minutes ago, DonMaguz said:

You got it backwards, 'luna' is the latin word for 'moon' and romance languages also use it, some with slight variations. Princess Luna's name comes from the word, not the other way around.

Stop logicalling on my parade!

[Phosphor 11,522]

I have a strong feeling that would violate some international treaties. Anyway, the idea of lighting up the Earth at night from space... just no! That would be light pollution hell and the end of ground based astronomy, at least in the visible spectrum.  

 

[DonMaguz 1,023]

4 hours ago, BornAgainBrony said:

Stop logicalling on my parade!

Hahah, sorry about that. I was on a pretty serious mood earlier today.

[Dreambiscuit 8,024]

It seems like a lot of money and effort for very little payoff. Personally I like nighttime to be dark. No one wants daylight 24/7. Besides being monotonous, it's unnatural. Night and day are part of the natural cycle of life and are needed by animals, plants and people.

What's next, trying to control the weather so that it's never too hot or too cold, but always a controlled 72 degrees? It's an unwelcome way to twist nature into an average homogenized environment. If it solved any major problems that were threatening lives that would be one thing, but this is pointless.

Edited October 19, 2018 by Dreambiscuit

[Twiggy 2,965]

10 hours ago, BornAgainBrony said:

claiming it will be bright enough to entirely replace street lights.  

>We've decided that our sun darkening pollution isn't enough, so we're going to put a fuckhuge light in the sky that will disturb various wildlife and ecosystems all around the world.

Why are we constantly trying to topple Middle Eastern dictatorships when the Chinese are clearly the real threat in nearly every way? Serious question.

[Quinch 1,119]

The real question is, will it be bright enough to penetrate the smog?

[Dabmanz 2,128]

China doesn't control the moon I doubt they would be able to just light it up without causing other countries to do something about it. 

[Nsxile 25,672]

China doesn't control the moon and I think that would violate international law.