@LostXOR
@fedia.ioIf every one of those users uploads one 10MB file, that would be two petabytes of data. At S3's IA prices that's $25k/month. And people are uploading far, far more data than that.
If anyone wants to actually run this, here ya go:
#include <stdio.h>
short i=0;long b[]={1712,6400
,3668,14961,00116, 13172,10368,41600,
12764,9443,112,12544,15092,11219,116,8576,8832
,12764,9461,99,10823,17,15092,11219,99,6103,14915,
69,1721,10190,12771,10065,16462,13172,10368,11776,
14545,10460,10063,99,12544,14434,16401,16000,8654,
12764,13680,10848,9204,113,10441,14306,9344,12404,
32869,42996,12288,141129,12672,11234,87,10086,
12655,99,22487,14434,79,10083,12750,10368,
10086,14929,79,10868,14464,12357};long
n=9147811012615426336;long main(){
if(i<0230)printf("%c",(char)((
0100&b[i++>>1]>>(i--&0x1)*
007)+((n>>(b[i>>001]>>
7*(0b1&01-i++)))&1
*main(111))));
return 69-
0b0110
;}
Bonus points if you can deobfuscate it!
The 9km mirror I'm referencing is for a sunlight level of illumination; the moonlight mirror needs only be 14m in diameter (or 500m for geostationary orbit).
Some calculations:
In a 1000km orbit, you'll need a mirror about 9km across to appear 0.5° in diameter from the ground (the same size as the Sun), and therefore light up an area with the same illumination as the Sun.
Note that you can't make due with a smaller mirror focused to a tighter area, as the brightest thing the mirror can reflect is the Sun, and so it must appear at least as large as the Sun in the sky to illuminate any point on the ground by the same amount.
With the much dimmer goal of moonlight illumination levels, the mirror shrinks to 9km / sqrt(400,000) = 14.2m in diameter, which is actually rather reasonable. However it would only illuminate an area 0.5° wide from the mirror's point of view, or around 9km. And because the mirror is orbiting at 7.4km/s, you'd only get a second or two of illumination.
TLDR: Moonlight mirror 14m across, could light up a 9km diameter area for a little over a second.
Edit: In the case of a permanent mirror in geostationary orbit, a 500m mirror could provide moonlight illumination to an area around 300km in diameter.
Hahahahah-
Wait... They're serious?
Does anyone really think this could actually work? A LEO satellite would have to be massive (>1 km) to reflect a significant amount of sunlight, and you'll need to put it waaay higher to avoid atmospheric drag. Not to mention the problem of the satellite only being above a given location for a few minutes a couple times a day.
After reading the first few paragraphs, I can understand why that site was deprecated by Wikipedia as a source. It's a very opinionated article.
They do still have to cater to desktop users, so I imagine accessible websites for those platforms will exist for many years to come.
Seems plausible enough, though there's no way they would be in a recognizable state after hitting the Moon at several km/s. More like fine powdered dinosaur, I suppose.
Physically speaking the sweat isn't going to cool you down if you're already covered in shower water, but you'd definitely still be sweating.