25th May 2005, 9:19 PM
That's actually being DONE by companies, the satellite thing. You see with an orbit as far as the moon, the size you'd need would be ridiculous, but the orbits most human made satellites are in, WAY closer, a mere fraction to an extreme degree, they are just like RIGHT up there, you can make an image as big as the full moon appears with just a mile diameter satellite. The idea is to just use a really huge sheet, and what with the lack of gravity (well you know what I mean) and the total lack of wind sheer of any kind, there's 0 stress on it that might cause it to rip. Just get some light on the thing and bam, you have yourself the SHAME of a SPECIES.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)