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Probably not the wisest idea to have a highly reflective material as the landing surface for planes humans are flying.

• nomel 4y ago
  Yeah, but it might be useful for the roughly 4 million miles of road in the US.
  • tehbeard 4y ago
    Actually saw it mentioned that albedo isn't directly connected to colour (and in particular since it's thermal radiation it'll be towards the IR side of the spectrum) there might be alternatives to "nuke flash white" paint colour.
    • nomel 4y ago
      It's only directly related in the visible spectrum, which is a slice that contains around 50% of the spectrum that the sun throws out, by energy. I would imagine the actual color would be something near orange.
      • yellowapple 4y ago
        > I would imagine the actual color would be something near orange. Which happens to be close to the color of adobe. I'm yet again starting to think that native peoples were onto something.