Strange science 😦

[Fake Messiah]

How cute.

Suzanne Somers’ husband says he’s created an AI clone of his late wife, two years after her death.

The digital twin was built using her voice, interviews, and personal memories.

“When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can’t tell the difference.”

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

How cute.

Suzanne Somers’ husband says he’s created an AI clone of his late wife, two years after her death.

The digital twin was built using her voice, interviews, and personal memories.

“When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can’t tell the difference.”

He can’t tell the difference? HE CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE?!  Christ on a bike - the animatronics at Disney parks are better.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

California Startup Wants to Launch 4,000 Mirrors to Orbit. Scientists Are Alarmed

Reflect Orbital recently applied for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to launch a demonstration satellite called EARENDIL-1 in April 2026. Once in orbit, the satellite will unfold a 3,600-square-foot (334-square-meter) mirror designed to direct sunlight down to targeted solar farms on Earth. This would be the first step toward the company’s goal of deploying a constellation of 4,000 such satellites by 2030.

Reflect Orbital’s website promises that its constellation will deliver “continuous, reliable access to energy, day or night, to increase power generation.” That promise has won the backing of big-wig investors and a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Air Force.

On paper, the concept is relatively simple—like using a hand mirror to bounce a spot of sunlight onto the wall. But in practice, this approach may not be as effective as Reflect Orbital hopes, according to astronomers Michael J. I. Brown of Monash University and Matthew Kenworthy of Leiden University.

In a recent article for The Conversation, they explain that due to the Sun’s size and distance, a reflected beam would spread out and be about 15,000 times dimmer than the midday Sun once it reaches Earth’s surface, though that’s still much brighter than the full Moon.

“If a single 54 metre [177-foot] satellite is 15,000 times fainter than the midday Sun, you would need 3,000 of them to achieve 20% of the midday Sun. That’s a lot of satellites to illuminate one region,” Brown and Kenworthy write. Because these satellites would orbit Earth so quickly, it would take well over 4,000 to provide continuous illumination, they add.

And that’s if everything goes according to plan, Eggl said. Imagine, for example, that a piece of space debris or a meteorite impacts one of these mirrors and causes it to tumble. “Once this thing tumbles, you basically have a gigantic lighthouse that is uncontrollably illuminating parts of the Earth,” he explained.

Light pollution also threatens numerous animal species whose behavior evolved to align with natural day-night cycles.

https://gizmodo.com/california-startup-w...2000675691

[zebo-the-fat]

California Startup Wants to Launch 4,000 Mirrors to Orbit. Scientists Are Alarmed

Reflect Orbital recently applied for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to launch a demonstration satellite called EARENDIL-1 in April 2026. Once in orbit, the satellite will unfold a 3,600-square-foot (334-square-meter) mirror designed to direct sunlight down to targeted solar farms on Earth. This would be the first step toward the company’s goal of deploying a constellation of 4,000 such satellites by 2030.

Reflect Orbital’s website promises that its constellation will deliver “continuous, reliable access to energy, day or night, to increase power generation.” That promise has won the backing of big-wig investors and a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Air Force.

On paper, the concept is relatively simple—like using a hand mirror to bounce a spot of sunlight onto the wall. But in practice, this approach may not be as effective as Reflect Orbital hopes, according to astronomers Michael J. I. Brown of Monash University and Matthew Kenworthy of Leiden University.

In a recent article for The Conversation, they explain that due to the Sun’s size and distance, a reflected beam would spread out and be about 15,000 times dimmer than the midday Sun once it reaches Earth’s surface, though that’s still much brighter than the full Moon.

“If a single 54 metre [177-foot] satellite is 15,000 times fainter than the midday Sun, you would need 3,000 of them to achieve 20% of the midday Sun. That’s a lot of satellites to illuminate one region,” Brown and Kenworthy write. Because these satellites would orbit Earth so quickly, it would take well over 4,000 to provide continuous illumination, they add.

And that’s if everything goes according to plan, Eggl said. Imagine, for example, that a piece of space debris or a meteorite impacts one of these mirrors and causes it to tumble. “Once this thing tumbles, you basically have a gigantic lighthouse that is uncontrollably illuminating parts of the Earth,” he explained.

Light pollution also threatens numerous animal species whose behavior evolved to align with natural day-night cycles.

https://gizmodo.com/california-startup-w...2000675691

Sounds like a bad idea for so many reasons!