https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/new-moon--china-to-launch-lunar-lighting-in-outer-space-10844096?cid=FBcna
I hope they fail :tickedoff: >:(.
There is already more than enough light pollution without this idiotic plan !
I can't go further without the RPFW forum but news like this makes me furious :pullhair:.
Could be worse. Could be the North Koreans, pretending to be British...
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/legendsofthemultiuniverse/images/c/c4/Die-another-day-icarus-satellite-scifi-real-life-384001130.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170731013343)
(Literally the plot of that film was to create a new solar warming moon, in order to open up new icebound areas -- but it was a space laser.)
That's no moon....now where have I heard this before???
(https://i.gifer.com/211K.gif)
This sounds like a job for.....
SPACE FORCE!!!!!
Hopefully they dont fry one of their cities.
So the sun will never set on the new Chinese Empire? Fine by me, just keep all that light over there. Some of us like it dark at night.
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 19, 2018, 10:27:25 AM
Some of us like it dark at night.
One of my hobbies is astronomy so this is why stuff like this angers me a lot.
My country is already ruined with light pollution. My grand mother thinks the Milky Way is gone because 'she could see it before and now it is not there anymore' (the only benefit of German occupation in WWII was the sky at night because of the blackout).
From my location (15 km from Brussels - just find the brightest spot on the picture below) I've never seen it !! And now they even want to flood it with more light from above :hide:.
(https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2017/04/night-Europe.jpg)
...is this going to be one of their wacky territorial justifications? Like, anywhere the government supplies public lighting for free, they legally claim as their territory? :o
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 19, 2018, 10:39:09 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 19, 2018, 10:27:25 AM
Some of us like it dark at night.
One of my hobbies is astronomy so this is why stuff like this angers me a lot.
My country is already ruined with light pollution. My grand mother thinks the Milky Way is gone because 'she could see it before and now it is not there anymore' (the only benefit of German occupation in WWII was the sky at night because of the blackout).
From my location (15 km from Brussels - just find the brightest spot on the picture below) I've never seen it !! And now they even want to flood it with more light from above :hide:.
(https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2017/04/night-Europe.jpg)
Europe has a long ways to go to catchup with the US, or at least he eastern half of the US.
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712129main_8247975848_88635d38a1_o.jpg)
Maybe they're trying to keep us from seeing what( the Govt's) are doing out there. :o :o :o
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 19, 2018, 12:23:04 PM
Maybe they're trying to keep us from seeing what( the Govt's) are doing out there. :o :o :o
It can't be worse than what they do down here.
I think this is an excellent idea. China can assert it's power over the rest of the world by threatening to shine the light of doom on anyone who resists unless they're willing to pay....
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As an amateur backyard astronomer I seriously hope this never takes off in the US.
I love the stars at night. I have a hard enough time seeing anything with the light pollution as it is.
I bet if we could get Kim Kardashian's big ass up in space we could out do them. Don't know if there's a rocket with enough lift capacity yet though.
Quote from: SirAndrewD on October 19, 2018, 09:43:00 PM
As an amateur backyard astronomer I seriously hope this never takes off in the US.
I love the stars at night. I have a hard enough time seeing anything with the light pollution as it is.
I'm becoming more and more an armchair astronomer these days ...
When I went on a cruise some years ago I imagined this should be a good opportunity to see the night sky in the middle of the ocean without any light pollution from nearby cities.
Then I found out cruise ships look like this at night :'( >:(.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4009/4382454405_2984ee7953_z.jpg?zz=1)
See if you can take a ride on a merchant, or even a warship.
They only have the running lights required for safe navigation. I used to enjoy going up to the signal bridge and looking at the sky.
Of course, in the swells, the ship was bobbing from side to side. You could see a gorgeous sky of stars, as they moved twenty degrees to the right, and then twenty degrees to the left.
Better than any light show at a concert.
Heh, funny you say that. On my ship we were absolutely forbidden to go outside the skin of the ship at night. I remember, though, one night I was going from one part of the ship to another and decided to hell with it and went out onto the catwalk to get to another part of the ship as a shortcut. Big, big mistake. I have never, ever seen such a complete absence of light in my life. I could quite literally not see my hand an inch in front of my face. I'm fortunate I was able to find the hatch and get back inside the ship.
Chinese AI news anchor.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-news-anchor-created-by-china-xinhua-news-agency-2018-11?IR=T&utm_content=buffera2998&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti
Quote from: jomni on November 10, 2018, 03:25:06 AM
Chinese AI news anchor.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-news-anchor-created-by-china-xinhua-news-agency-2018-11?IR=T&utm_content=buffera2998&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti
That presenter's not at all creepy, no not one bit... ???
Quote from: Toonces on October 20, 2018, 10:30:25 PM
Heh, funny you say that. On my ship we were absolutely forbidden to go outside the skin of the ship at night. I remember, though, one night I was going from one part of the ship to another and decided to hell with it and went out onto the catwalk to get to another part of the ship as a shortcut. Big, big mistake. I have never, ever seen such a complete absence of light in my life. I could quite literally not see my hand an inch in front of my face. I'm fortunate I was able to find the hatch and get back inside the ship.
What ship? I can only imagine a bubble head not being allowed outside, for obvious reasons!
I was on the Independence CV62 in the late 80's and I still remember having to stand balls to 4AM watch at the top of the island. Dead of winter. Bitter cold but very clear sky and almost full moon. The big dipper seemed to cover half the sky.
I got out just before desert shield and never went further than a few hundred miles off the east coast. Maybe that explains the lax security. That or the fact that no one had cell phones.