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A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)

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197 points amichail | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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cryptoz ◴[17 Oct 24 00:08 UTC] No.41865171[source]▶
I’ve put this in my “other ideas” section in YC applications for a couple rounds now. No luck yet.

Would love to send 1,000 probes to 550AU+ out in order to observe 1,000+ ‘nearby’ exoplanets, hopefully find life, make contact, start trade…haha. Or otherwise defend the solar system from invaders that are perhaps already on the way!

Maybe YC rejects me specifically because I put that there…hm.

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1. dylan604 ◴[17 Oct 24 02:43 UTC] No.41865948[source]▶
What kind of ROI would attract a VC to this kind of project? How could they monetize it?

Would each image created be proceeded by ads that you can skip after 5s or would they be unskippable? Data harvesting is kind of the point of the platform, but maybe they could track that data and get the PII/deanonymized information? "This user spent 104 hours continuously staring at the sun. Maybe they would be interested in sunglasses, or maybe some sun block"