Night Sun & Make A Call

A company is going to try sell you the sun at night. Dangerous Dave talks about how a tech startup is trying to make it happen. Plus, when is acceptable to make a phone call? According to those under 35, almost never.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Uber in the den with Dangerous Day Now.
This is one of the stories that reminds me, yeah,
we're living in the future. A startup in California called
reflect Orbital planning to use mirrored satellites to sell sunlight
to people when it's dark out. One of the co
founders is a former SpaceX employee. They're trying to put
a constellation satellites into orbit that can reflect sunlight and

(00:22):
direct it anywhere on Earth. Russia actually did a proof
concept decades ago and it worked. Mainly designed to help
big solar farms keep generating power at night. But anybody
can go to their website and fill out a sunshine application.
Deadline is October twenty third. To apply, you need a
pretty big plot of land to get it approved. Each
patch of sunlight, which will be about three miles across,

(00:42):
so your neighbors might not be wild about it. Not
clear how much they're planning to charge. It's not going
to be cheap. You won't to have twenty four hour sunlight,
at least not yet. For now. You get about four
minutes worth of sun They're hoping to run initial test
by late twenty twenty five. I don't know, is there
kind of some type of ecoss there's some weird ramification
for doing something like this, and you got that sunlight.

(01:04):
What if your neighbor works and is trying to sleep
at night deeper in the two phone calls, are they
really acceptable anymore? To be honest, I don't mind texting.
I still like getting phone calls. You know, young people
hate phone calls. Oh. A recent poll, twenty three percent
of people under thirty five never answer their phone, So
if you're calling them, better have a good reason. Two
thousand people were asked to name the most acceptable reason

(01:25):
for calling somebody instead of texting in twenty twenty four,
and they are for general chat. So if you just
want to catch up you're not working. But still, if
you're under thirty five, you might want to text somebody
first inform somebody of a death. Still, text probably is
in the best form of communication with that, to support
somebody when they're going through a tough time. Other acceptable
times for phone calls in twenty twenty four to wish

(01:47):
them a happy birthday. When you're running late and you're
driving and you can't text, who want to make sure
they don't miss your text? To book things? Like a
hotel or restaurant reservation, to announce positive news like we're pregnant,
calling in sick at work, when you are lost in
your trying to find someone, or if you're out somewhere
and trying to meet up, and to share negative health updates.
The poll also found the average adult in twenty twenty four,

(02:07):
oh only spends five and a half minutes a day
on the phone now, but if you're young, it's more
like zero. My wife usually calls me on our way
home every day from work, and I actually enjoy that.
We get a chance to catch up a little bit
and talk about our days and whatnot. So yeah, I
like getting a phone call on occasion, especially if I'm
traveling I can't text hands free. I love it. Great
way to waste some time. To me again for another

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episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave right here.