Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
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Excellent!
Apologies for the thread hijack, but is anyone watching the Starliner demo launch? Sounds like the spacecraft’s engines didn’t fire, it might be coming back in rather than getting to ISS.
$0.25 each in lots of 5000 on Alibaba. Shipping in 15 days. The product description notes bird control and chemical reaction abatement as primary uses. The description appears to reference the LA Reservoir directly:
“. . . pouring a nice blanket of dark spheres over a reservoir prevents that hot California sun from breaking through, . . .”
And: ” . . . shade balls reduce water loss by about 300 million gallons a year, which is pretty good for a side gig.”
I bet it drove the Russian an Chinese recon satellite operators absolutely knuts….”What are those crazy Americans doing NOW ?!”