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that movie will be brilliant
lol wat
iron sky was amazing
totally gona watch this
who is this fine fine gentleman
I'm happy with this one
BWAHAHAHA
lmao
lol
fuckin
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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
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