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.
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.
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.
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.”
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
If you break a mirror satellite it’s like 10 years of bad luck for the whole planet.
7 light years of bad luck
That’s 6.623 × 10^13 kilometers of bad luck!