The Russian Plan To Use Space Mirrors To Turn Night Into Day (vice.com)

merbs writes: Throughout the early 90s, a team of Russian astronomers and engineers were hellbent on literally turning night into day. By shining a giant mirror onto the earth from space, they figured they could bring sunlight to the depths of night, extending the workday, cutting back on lighting costs and allowing laborers to toil longer. If this sounds a bit like the plot of a Bond film, well, it's that too. The difference is that for a second there, the scientists, led by Vladimir Sergeevich Syromyatnikov, one of the most important astronautical engineers in history, actually pulled it off.

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Must have been a slow day at Motherboard

[Crashmarik]

Does take a certain something to try and recast a 20 year old failure as a great success

Its a german one

[Anonymous Coward]

As every modern weapon of mass destruction (except perhaps drones, those are american) it had been originally thought of by the nazis and gets first built by either the americans or the russians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...