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It’s that sad time of the year, the longest day is gone. I wish I always had 14 hour days. The idea is to launch a set of satellites, just big mirrors that reflect extra sun light at dusk and dawn. I don’t mind so much the cold but the dark, so the mirrors don’t have to reflect infrared or ultra violet.
They just have to reflect the visible light when I get up and until I go to bed. Could also save a few nuclear power plants because people are done cooking before they need lights.
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<sigh> Typically hemispherically insensitive. <sigh> |
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16 hours of daylight, how do the birds ever know when to sleep? Yeah I'm jealous. I'm not a morning person and it takes me 2 to 6 hours of daylight to get into the mood for work. |
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[CF] quit whining if you live at the equator! If you live south of that get your own satellite. |
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Does that mean the shortest day of the year has passed for us? Bring on summer! |
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Shortest day yesterday. Played golf at 6:10am... bloody freezing! Frost on all of the fairways, until 10am. |
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[bz]: 17 hours 20 minutes here! |
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Lighting up the night with space-borne solar reflectors is not a new idea. The Russians are possibly the farthest along with it, as they want to extend the growing season of their farm belt. |
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But if you really are afraid of the dark, simply spend your longest summer above the Artic circle and below the Antarctic, depending on the time of year. |
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[bz]: 18 hours 38 minutes here |
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Hmmmm... I guess I really do live in the desert. Which is funny because I live next to a lake. The water level drops by about 2 feet during the summer. |
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<< waits for [Hollajam] to boast about how long her daylight hours are in Anchorage >> |
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..and how long her winter nights are! |
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