Quote:robkelk wrote:Meh. I can think of worse things. New Texas has potential for awesome. I know it's on the outskirts, but where there is SCIENCE the is a way!
Quote:Also, muhahahaha. >Somebody's going to be jealous...
I am thinking of a series of giant reflectors to bounce the light of Bernard's Star into the lunar system of New Texas ( and perhaps New Oklahoma as well - it's the neighborly thing to do). The reflectors would be large enough the they don't even need to orbit. How's that, you ask? You make them large enough that the oncoming solar winds from the star counterbalances the gravitational pull. (Big Grin)
To help maintain that profile, each reflector would not be a continuous surface, but instead an array of smaller mirrors that can be shifted to beam the light anywhere within... oh, say a forty-five degree angle. Is that too generous or not enough? This also gives us a bonus in the departments of survivability and maintenance. In the event we get a few random pieces of space rock charging through the system, any damage done will be highly localized, and individual reflector segments should be easy to replace. That could even become the ongoing local industry.
