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Chinese biz baron wants to shove his artificial moon where the sun doesn't shine – literally

Cynic_999

Re: Drag

"So, HOW BIG does that mirror need to be?"

Very, very big. But that is far from impractical, because the mirror can be made of plastic just a few molecules thick which is unfurled in space to be many square kilometres in area.

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