This is literally a totally spies episode
This has scam written all over it. Might as well throw in a monorail.
I hear those things are awfully loud.
In the demo, former SpaceX intern and startup cofounder Ben Nowack is shown using an app outside in the dark that seems to control the location of the company’s sunlight-reflecting mirrors. As he selects the spot where he stands, the area around him is suddenly illuminated as if by stadium lights.
LMAO of course it’s a SpaceX intern’s idea.
Yeah, it’s boring.
I want a Starliner intern to come up with something.
Btw, Starliner undocked the space station, set course back to earth and must have landed, uncrewed, 2 - 3 hours ago. That was the plan, at least.
Edit: Here it is after undocking the station, showing off it’s glorious thrusters:
Hasn’t made it to re-entry burn yet. That’s scheduled for about 40 minutes from now. Is supposed to land around 10 pm New Mexico time. Or about 2 hours from now.
The touchdown
Seems like both Astronauts would have made a safe return after all.
To be fair, if I’m NASA, who’s had two fatal incidents with known damaged spacecraft, I’m also not sending two astronauts down on a known damaged spacecraft.
You’re right, i must have worded it completely wrong, because i think it was the best decision NASA could have made.
I guess it’s good for Boeing that Starliner made the way back home without incidents and had a smooth landing, but i really don’t know,l. If i were NASA, i wouldn’t spend more money on this. In the end only they know if Boeing is capable of finishing this. I think it depends on all those tests Boeing made being analyzed. They, probably, will then present NASA their conclusions and how they plan to proceed from there.
Maybe Starliner’s AI is conscious, doesn’t like humans and starts sabotaging itself when humans are onboard.
Dude, I read about it in a 1990 donald duck (true actually, +/- some years).
James Bond Die Another Day ahh post
No way this doesn’t end poorly. I’m envisioning the SOL laser from Akira.
You better hope you’re not a customer’s neighbor.
Oh hey… Look! It’s exactly the kind of thing I trust a for-profit tech company with!
Are you as excited as I am to follow the journey of how this leads to you and I paying individual daily subscriptions for basic access to sunlight (and the quality of that sunlight being filtered into multiple premium tiers - light basic, light & heat+, light & heat & UV ultimate++)?
This would be great for pranking people into thinking that they are getting abducted by aliens or that God is going to be talking to them.
Simpsons did it first .
Unless it has AI I’m not interested
can I buy sunlight to point at someone I don’t like for say, a month? no reason.
This. This I could get behind.
my neighbor ran a jackhammer for three months every day trying to build a pool. I say three months of no darkness at night is fair retribution.
Can I pay to point the sun at someone who is making my life miserable? Preventing them from getting a good night’s sleep will surely make things better, right?
This has some real futurama wormstrom energy to it.
