On Thursday, David Spain exclaimed wildly:
On 1/3/2013 6:29 PM, bob haller wrote:
On Jan 3, 5:30 pm, David Spain wrote:
On 1/3/2013 12:11 PM, bob haller wrote:

Build some big reflectors in earth orbit to illuminate earth during
the night.

No thanks, I enjoy my rural night sky which on clear moonless nights can
deliver seeing of objects down to magnitude 6 with the unaided eye.
And lower using averted vision.

Dave

it would save oil, make night driving safer, and could end at say
10PM, so night sky lovers would be accomidated.....

say create daylight savings time year round of the longest day of the
year

paid for by savings on oil


You of all people should not forget the risks!

Let me refer you to a personal favorite, a little short story by
Issac Asimov entitled "Nightfall":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfa...y_and_novel%29


And it isn't fiction that lack of darkness during sleeptime is bad for
some animals, including a certain primate that might be involved in
such a project.

/dps

--
"This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away be excitement,
but ask calmly, how does this person feel about in in his cooler
moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on
top of him?"
_Roughing It_, Mark Twain.