Earth’s circumference is 40 000 km, if you align 50k patches of 5 km width, it covers more than 6 times this circumference.
Current human’s light pollution is already a biodiversity issue. This would be massively worsening the situation for just one system.
Earth’s circumference is 40 000 km, if you align 50k patches of 5 km width, it covers more than 6 times this circumference. Current human’s light pollution is already a biodiversity issue. This would be massively worsening the situation for just one system.
Only a single mirror has been approved.
Even if all 50,000 were up, where do you think they’ll be aimed? Cities and other developed land, most likely. Last time something like this was proposed the plan was to replace streetlights with them, which would save electricity.
But people would rather get angry about “supervillains” I guess.