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[โ€“] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 72 points 3 months ago (15 children)

It's pretty simple, actually. A village somewhere in Europe that is completely in the shade all day for part of the year has already proven it.

Mirrors.

We just need a ring of motorized mirrors around the Earth.

At hour 0, the mirrors will rotate to show sun all across the entire Earth.

At hour 12, the mirrors will rotate to put all of the Earth into night time.

That lets the entire Earth have the exact same synchronized time synchronized with the daylight.

The mirrors will block the sun from parts of the earth facing during the night.

The mirrors will constantly be rotating to keep the proper amount of sun light facing each part of Earth as the Earth rotates.

The mirrors will be solar powered.

This will fix it, right?

[โ€“] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 months ago

Now I'm thinking about an ex-programmer supervillain who does this as her big foray into supervillainy

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