re space marketing would be wonderfull stange meena cc uregina ca writes phil your point is well taken it is still a sad idea i m worried by the concern about it though for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with space advertising which for a number of reasons is probably doomed to fail on financial grounds and i ve been reading and and writing this thread since way back when it was only on sci space for starters i don t think the piece of light pollution apparatus would be as bright as the full moon that seems to me to be a bit of propaganda on the part of opponents or wishful thinking on the part of proponents second this charge of ruining the night sky permanently has been levelled against other projects that either don t increace light pollution significantly or increace light pollution only over the target area you may or may not recognize as being solar power sattelites i think it was josh hopkins who actually did the math showing that sps s weren t that bright after all ending some two months of frenzied opposition on the part of dark sky activists and various other types is mainly projects like the orbiting mirror the cis tested recently while slightly more worrisome i d like to point out that any significant scattering of light outside the target area for one of these mirrors would be wasted as far as the project would be concerned and something any project like that would work against anyway and given some of the likely targets i don t think there s going to be much of an outcry from the inhabitants there is too much dark sky in the northern cis during the winter and i doubt you ll find many activists in murmansk demanding the natural sky back if anything he ll probably be inside stripped buck naked in front of the uv lamp making sure he ll get enough vitamin d for the day the mirror experiments aren t something they re doing for crass advertising they think that if they can build one it ll be one of those things people in the affected areas will think they couldn t have lived without before and i doubt anyone s going to really be able to convince them to stop phil fraering number one good faith you convert pgf srl cacs usl edu you not tortured by demons anon mahen missionary
