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A gigantic source of light in the sky that lights up a part of the Earth and is too bright to look at is... the sun. I think we're all used to the sun.

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I personally am _not_ used to seeing the sun after sunset and before sunrise.

Neither is nature, this sounds like an environmental disaster waiting to happen

considering plants grow just fine with grow lights, they don't really care. same with co2, they LOVE CO2

Nature is more than just plants.

> they LOVE CO2

Plants can absorb some more CO2 and it improves their growth slightly but saying they LOVE CO2 is an exaggeration.

They turn it into sugar, what's not to love?

Solar panels aren't nature. Shining lights on solar panels is not going to be an environmental disaster.

everyone’s seen ads before, mind if I put a giant ad in the sky for everyone to look at?

Don't give these ghouls ideas.

The idea of putting a PepsiCo or Coca-Cola ad on the moon dates backs to the 60's, when we first went there.

If one person owned the sun and could charge all humanity for access to its light then maybe that would be a relevant example

What do you think is being proposed, exactly? Some sort of alternative sun that's going to shine on the entire earth, that we'll all be forced to look at?

No. I used a rhetorical device to highlight a theoretical monopoly we assume would never exist. But imagine I launch a space sail that can cast a shadow on any part of earth I chose. I could block or unblock sunlight at will and grant access only for paying customers.

Is that something that should be permitted?

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