>>Are they worth the cost/tradeoffs? Hell NO!! Ubiquitous on-the-ground lighting is already disrupting plant, animal, and insect life cycles. Adding a blanke

>>Are they worth the cost/tradeoffs? Hell NO!! Ubiquitous on-the-ground lighting is already disrupting plant, animal, and insect life cycles. Adding a blanketing sun reflector illuminating five-plus square kilometers at a time will obliterate critical signals to everything living there, and won't do any good for the humans. And nevrermind the astronomy. It is an abomination and nothing but a scheme by amoral people to separate other fools from their money.