I'm happy with this one

BWAHAHAHA

lmao

lol

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/304814473242214410/503348665235144705/h6o480ta1ct11.png?width=716&height=683

I'm curious what's your opinion on this
http://time.com/5429288/china-chengdu-artificial-moon/

fuckin

press (X) to doubt

Dude, a made-in-china quality moon doesnt sound that dependable.

Great now China is taking credit for the moon.

I swear they steal everything.

I looked at this the other day. It's a great idea. The moon isn't that big in the sky. Making a Mylar sheet appear the same size in a geosynchronous orbit wouldn't be hard.
You could also use it to power solar farms at night.

Won't work. Geosynchronous orbit only works over the equator and the distance is some 35 000 km, not 500km as the scientists are using

I didn't even think about if they can do it or not, but on the implications if they do

@Risotto nice

Its china

Fake moon would need to be, what, 350km diameter or so at geosynchronous orbit?

To appear the same size as real moon

They probably planned it but for all we know some engineer just went we cant do this under current circumstances but theorized it might be possible some time in the future.

Which is hella different from actively developing it

@Crow When you are talking about being so far away, being over the equator would not matter. It's not like China is in the artic circle.

Yeah the distance was futmrther than I had first anticipated

And for future reference to avoid the 'well actually' space nerds out there, it's 'geostationary' not 'geosynchronous'. Like I said I think it's a great plan. The US would be like. 'We need personal moon too, and it's going to be red, white and blue.'

The thing is.. there's a lot of downsides

http://puu.sh/BOo2a.jpg

The NPC meme isn't a meme if you call all of the memers Russian Bots

"Mild voter suppression"

<:npc:498257357659176970> <:NPC:500042527231967262>

Uhm

How does a joke suppress voters?

I think they mean because it makes the actual #resist twitter mob look ridiculous and are therefore making people not listen to them I guess?

There are some accounts where I can't tell if they're real or not

I think some actual leftists are following my NPC account and liking my tweets because they think I'm on their side

Either that or they are top tier trolls

All if not most of the npc memers have npc in their usernames. Usually in the form of initials.

Norton Pratchette-Cole

If they have that pattern its another memer

They also stopped using the npc face because people started reporting them

So they resorted to generic pics

Though honestly the npc memers need to step up their game