Maybe it's time for some bat shit crazy.

So a company wants to try out some new idea/technology and with public funding is able to scale it up enough for a more serous rollout.

Succeed or fail, I'm excited that people continue to try and innovate.

It's not your tax dollars being wasted if it fails, so why not let innovation (man-made evolution) veer off in a new direction and see where it takes us.

If it had already been done, it wouldn't be newsworthy. Of course I'm not trying to discuss that. What I am commenting on is you're inability to read an article all the way through, and then comprehend the material enough to make constructive comments or critiques without ignoring some of the basic information that already exists in the article.

so yeah, again you didn't read the article, if you had you would have come across things like...

"your statement"
>> One tiny little question, the light pressure on this giant solar array, how will it be compensated? You know, the same light pressure that's supposed to drive solar sails to other stars? So, will we 3D print a reaction system to keep the panel oriented? Hmm? Oh OK, we'll just add some ion thrusters every few meters... Oh, how are you going to refuel it? More 3D printers?

"TFA" - I mean, c'mon there's a whole paragraph with link to further reading, here's a little snippit from the article.
Using a technique called gravity gradient stabilization, the bus would act as a counterweight to the huge panel.

>> So I guess the design of a fail-safe, automatically self-repairing.......

So I guess you didn't RTFA did ya now?

>> Oh sorry, so you'd be scheduling regular maintenance and repair trips? In geostationary........

Oh sorry, you couldn't be bothered to RTFA to answer your silly questions?

>> One tiny little question, the light pressure on this giant solar array, how will it be.......

One tiny little question, did ya RTFA?

>> Wait, something so large and thin would......

Wait, something so easy as RTFA is too challenging, but spouting off about engineering issues, to which I'm sure you are an expert, not so much.... Hmmm!

>> But isn't the Earth under imminent threat of being wiped out by the......

But isn't Earth under imminent threat from ignorant people who don't RTFA before spouting off??

They know that this will not solve the problem, and are waiting for you to provide them with a creative solution.

Since you haven't gotten around to supplying them with your enlightened solution, they are going to have to move forward with plan B.

Not sure what makes people think there is a magical "them" that come up with solutions, and if everyone sits around taking no action, "them" will come through for "us". Looks to me like the FAA and FBI are taking the stance that magic just isn't going solve this one, so they are trying a tactic, popular or not.\

in the end he really just likes wang

I wonder if they sat down and hashed out what type of fight it was going to be. Evidently based on your rant, every fight is a fist fight unless both parties loudly announce to the other if they have an object like a lead pipe, knife, or a gun, so that the other party can call time-out and "make things fair" before continuing.

Not posted anonymously as I understand the world we live in a little better than you, which is, "there is no fair fight".

You seriously think this is the government's fault? oh my

you mean like adjusting the TTL for the DNS records that you know you will be changing, well in advance of the day of the change?

Lesson Learned.

As if he wants to have hours long conversations with his personal gadget repairman.

It is reasonable to ignore as much as we can. That line of thinking worked out well in the Gulf.

Roof -> generators Above water level (1st floor and up) -> Electrical stuff Basement -> rats and other Texas style vermin ??? profit

And after Mars, it's off to Uranus. Soon to be renamed to Urectum.