This artificial moon, which totally probably won't house spying equipment we swear, will orbit the Earth at around 500km, or 760 times closer than our current Moon, and is predicted to be around 8 times brighter as a result. Leading ecologists predict a massive uptick in werewolf transformations, and advise all citizens to be careful when travelling at night. Despite this lycanthropic threat and the increase in luminosity, the chief of the Tian Fu New Area Science Society, Wu Chunfeng, said that “its expected brightness, in the eyes of humans, is around one-fifth of normal streetlights.” This conspicuously fails to mention the eyes of werewolves, so we must wait until further experiments have been conducted. He then goes on to state that "the location and brightness of the light beam can be changed, and its coverage accuracy can fall within a few dozen meters", thus revealing the true purpose of this installation: a solar death-ray. Invest now in sunscreen stocks.
When asked about this new threat to public health and national security, the Chinese public had little to say, speaking in what sounded to this reporter as some sort of secret code. The only reasonable conclusion, of course, is that this is a conspiracy on a national level, with sleeper agents in roughly 110% of the population.
This isn't the first time that an airborne installation intent on solar diversion has been attempted, as in the 1990's, Russia attempted to create a 25-meter space-mirror (of death) in order to distribute sunlight to areas of the country which needed it, effectively playing God. Luckily for all God-fearing citizens of Earth, the affront to Jesus failed to unfurl in the sky, and proceeded to burn up in the atmosphere, like the souls of its creators will do in Hell. Russia and now China; isn't this just like communism, trying to redistribute even the sunlight above? EARN YOUR OWN SUNLIGHT, YOU BUMS!
Wu estimated that Chengdu could save around 1.2 billion yuan, or 174 million America Moneys, in electricity annually with this project, though whether that's due to more efficient lighting or a drastic reduction in the living populace of their city due to unforeseen, solar-ray-related accidents, is not stated.
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