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To: Jordan Electron who wrote (1337)	10/15/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: AurumRabosa	Respond to of 8010

That's the worst most intrusive idea I've ever heard of. Is someone really going to build a space reflector? What about us folks that hate streetlights and enjoy looking up at the stars? You'll never see the stars again.

To: Jordan Electron who wrote (1337)	10/15/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: Ray Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8010

Jordan: Aluminum flashed onto Mylar film makes an excellent, and inexpensive, reflector. Just imagine a huge "space blanket." In space aluminum film would not rapidly oxidize, there being little oxygen. Far less costly and not about to be in short supply. With some controls to shape the mirror and aim it one could fry ants from space - or one's enemies, for that matter. RH

To: Jordan Electron who wrote (1337)	10/15/1998 7:51:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 8010

The Russian Znamya-2.5 project is scheduled for November 1998. Popular Mechanics 11/98 magazine describes it as a way to light up cities without street lights, by reflecting sunlight from outer space to earth. It'll never happen, at least not on a large scale. People, animals and plants need both light and dark. Environmentalists would freak, both due to the effect on animals (esp. nocturnal ones) and the possible warming effect. Maybe in the 70's when the big scare was Global Cooling and the coming New Ice Age, but not now in the 90's when the environmental disaster du jour is Global Warming.