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In reply to the discussion: This Startup Wants to Use Space Mirrors to Light Up Earth at Night. Feds Just Said Go Ahead [View all]Brenda
(2,142 posts)9. James Bond plot Die Another Day 2002
At his ice palace in Iceland, Graves unveils a new orbital mirror satellite, Icarus, which is able to focus solar energy on a small area and provide year-round sunshine for agriculture. Frost seduces Bond, and Jinx infiltrates Graves's command centre but is captured by Graves and Zao. Bond rescues her and discovers that Graves is Colonel Moon, who has used gene therapy to change his appearance and amassed his fortune through conflict diamonds, using them as cover. Bond confronts Graves, but Frost arrives to reveal herself as the traitor who betrayed him in North Korea, forcing Bond to escape from Graves's facility. He returns in his Vanquish to rescue Jinx, who has been recaptured in the palace. As Graves uses Icarus to melt the ice palace, Zao pursues Bond into the palace using his Jaguar XKR. Bond kills Zao by shooting an ice chandelier, which falls onto him and revives a nearly drowned Jinx in a hot pool.
Tell me again how the tech bro/billionaire/crooks running our government now are NOT aliens terraforming Earth?
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This Startup Wants to Use Space Mirrors to Light Up Earth at Night. Feds Just Said Go Ahead [View all]
highplainsdem
14 hrs ago
OP
Very bad Idea. Darkness is necessary to many plants, animals and yes even humans to survive and grow.
efhmc
14 hrs ago
#7
This has been proposed for many many years (maybe not proposed but speculated to in many Sci-Fi books.
SWBTATTReg
14 hrs ago
#2
No need to worry about animals (and plants) that need night to sleep, hunt, live.
erronis
14 hrs ago
#4
Oh, FFS! Plants', animals' health which we do rely on in obvious, and not obvious ways!
electric_blue68
13 hrs ago
#11
What will happen is they will spend millions over a few years. There will be a lot of planning and
Srkdqltr
13 hrs ago
#12
This "great idea" should be reviewed through the National Evironmental Policy Act (NEPA).
waterwatcher123
13 hrs ago
#13
Manly alpha men like in this administration have no concern about girly things like the environment
LymphocyteLover
24 min ago
#50
Geostationary high-altitude balloons would be cheaper and more servicable. They're already in fairly wide use.
eppur_se_muova
13 hrs ago
#14
This is one of those "Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you should".
Snarkoleptic
13 hrs ago
#15
Unless they all shatter. The conceptual warning behind the movie Gravity is becoming a reality, and the universe cheers
Cheezoholic
9 hrs ago
#36
How disruptive is it when people get sent up to the Land of the Midnight Sun?
NBachers
11 hrs ago
#23
Republican bullshit.. If it makes $$$ in short term is all they care about, long term unimportant
WorseDayEver
10 hrs ago
#30
I have a dream of beaming microwaves from outer space onto Mar-A-Lago
struggle4progress
10 hrs ago
#34
Thinking back to when I lived in a very rurual, remote part of Montana and mercury-vapor yard lamps
Attilatheblond
9 hrs ago
#38