What if the Moon was a Disco Ball?
DISCO BALL MOON INFORMATION: The large mirror-tiles are 150km squared, and the small ones are 100km squared. They are all 10 km thick with glass (with an IOR of 1.56) There are 3012 mirrored...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. If we turned the Moon into a giant disco ball, day and night would not be a disco party. Instead of diffusely reflecting sunlight onto all of us, a mirror-tiled moon would reflect specularly. You would be lucky to momentarily catch a single reflected beam of sunlight. Now, with the help visuals by Nick from Yeti Dynamics, who you should subscribe to immediately, let's see what would occur if a disco ball moon actually happened. Here's the Earth with an imaginary screen behind it, so we can track the path of reflections from a disco ball Moon. It's 3,012 mirror tiles are ten kilometres thick and between 100 and 150 kilometres across. And, as you can see, the beams of sunlight they reflect would only intersect with ...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. If we turned the Moon into a giant disco ball, day and night would not be a disco party. Instead of diffusely reflecting sunlight onto all of us, a mirror-tiled moon would reflect specularly. You would be lucky to momentarily catch a single reflected beam of sunlight. Now, with the help visuals by Nick from Yeti Dynamics, who you should subscribe to immediately, let's see what would occur if a disco ball moon actually happened. Here's the Earth with an imaginary screen behind it, so we can track the path of reflections from a disco ball Moon. It's 3,012 mirror tiles are ten kilometres thick and between 100 and 150 kilometres across. And, as you can see, the beams of sunlight they reflect would only intersect with ...
