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Originally Posted by gary
A story from the "If they got rid of all that light pollution maybe they wouldn't need this department" 
Miwa Suzuki reports yesterday at phys.org that a micro-satellite developed
by a Tokyo startup, which is designed to deploy an artificial meteor
shower light-show, was launched as part of the payload of a Epsilon-4 rocket
from the Uchinoura space centre by the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Friday morning.
Story here :-
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-japan-...rtificial.html |
But WHY??? What possible benefit could a constant supply of meteors have? And the massive hubris is a mind-blower - a company that believes it has the right to cover the whole world with meteor showers. I, too, hope for it's failure.
Peter