retrieve of all the power it takes to fire up up empty parking lots at night . retrieve of how galling it can be when the sun extend down , yet you did n’t land up all your work for the day . reckon of how big it would be if we could just extend daytime , reduce the cost of fall up all those empty streets and garage , and keep our metropolis as excessively illuminated as they already are today . We should justbrighten the Sun Myung Moon .
Somewhere between clapper - in - impertinence pranksterism and an elaborate figure fiction proposal , the so - telephone FOREO Institute — get in touch toFOREO , the ravisher product firm — has a plan for “ transforming the airfoil of the moon . ” Just make that affair brighter ! reckon of the result this might have on the cosmetics industry , what with all the weird new style luminance will bounce off mass ’s pelt .
But it ’s not about selling new line of make - up ; no , it ’s about lay aside the earth jillion of dollars in electrical eyeshade . “ By increasing the reflectance of the lunar month , ” the Institute explains , “ the worldly concern can experience brighter nights and diminish the need to use galvanizing lighting in the hours after sunset . ” BOOM .
No problems here , my protagonist . No interrupted wildlife migration routes , no suspension of our own circadian rhythm , no unintended side - effects . We ’ve already bet at geoengineering scheme as a possible solution to climate change — why not lunar applied science ?
While we ’re at it , let ’s not just light up the moon but impart mass to it : change lunar time period in the oceans , throw off menstrual cycle , maybe even slow up the earth ’s rotation down by a millisecond and clear a morsel more breathing room every twenty-four hour period . I ca n’t see anything that might go incorrectly here , and , as luck would have it , the FOREO Institute has already raised $ 52,896,400 in play money to see this add up true — perhaps from@boredelonmusk . [ The FOREO Institute ]
guide epitome : Ted S. Warren / AP . Comparative moon shot good manners The FOREO Institute .
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