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Startup’s “Idiotic” Plan to Illuminate Earth Would “End the Night Sky as We Know It”

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Startup’s “Idiotic” Plan to Illuminate Earth Would “End the Night Sky as We Know It”
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This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.



Locals in a rural area of California were recently startled to see dazzlingly bright light shining down from nearby mountains at night, illuminating a swathe of the desert below.



Unbeknown to them, the strange nocturnal illumination was the latest step in a company’s plan to erect thousands of giant mirrors in space to reflect sunlight on to the Earth du

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