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It takes a special mind to figure out they need to "solve" nighttime.
That said, I wonder if you could use it to screw with people. Would it also have military applications? What if you could light up the area you were about to attack and then come at them out of the dark. Also useful against vampires. Once you start thinking about it, the applications are endless.
Also useful against vampires.
This is effectively moonlight, isn't it? I thought vampires could survive that.
Spoilsport.
Back to my plan to make it rain holy water.
There's a Martin Mars flying boat that's recently been restored to flying condition.
"in the process of focusing our mirrors, we may have set Mars ablaze.... Oops"
In other news, giant magnifying glass treating humans like ants? More at 11
The earth can’t even currently remove as much heat as it needs to during our current night cycles, we do not need to be speeding it up and cooking it from multiple angles.
What a horrible, horrible idea. Dear God no.
Can I use it to annoy my neighbor?
With a 5km radius, yes, yes you can. All your neighbours. And their neighbours, and most of town.
Ok, so the neighboring town where the rival gang/sports team/even pettier mayor lives.
Oh, don't get me started on how much I hate rival town's sportsball team!
You could probably find easier ways of doing that, like weeing through their letterbox.
Or, if you have a shy bladder, pee into an old washing-up liquid bottle, then use that to squirt through the letterbox. It's what my landlord did to his neighbours he didn't like. He was what a certain demographic would describe as an absolute legend.
It's like opposite of the Simpson episode where Mr Burns blocks the sun to have the city use their lights at daytime.
This will totally screw up the wildlife in the area :(
I made this comment in another thread about this, but this would be an amazing way to screw with someone on a camping trip. Fifteen minutes of daylight would be just enough for someone to get up, get dressed, start going about their morning routine, only for the sun to go out.
Bonus points if they don't check their watch and notice it's 2am.