That video screen on the inside of the umbrella could be made with some portable beamer projecting it, would be cool to have in a storm so you could see oncoming traffic haha
This wil change nothing that is not already in effect for most sites. Try to upload a movie to Youtube, it will be removed. But only when the owner/author complains or some automatic filter is triggered.
There is also too much content to check and enforce it all.
YouTube has stated that if this passes, "EU residents are at risk of being cut off from videos that, in just the last month, they viewed more than 90bn times" – i.e. despite all the overblocking and mistakes, still too much slips through ContentID for them to take the risk of direct liability. https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/11/i-support-go...
In all likelihood, EU users will just end up using VPN-type services to bypass the blocks... rather than talking to their MEPs.
(I don't blame them to be fair, I've gone down the MEP route - they replied with a form letter to the effect of "this is party policy and I'll support it because it's for your own good, and I'm not discussing it further")
Not most sites. In fact, youtube is somewhat the exception; they developed censoring capabilities only because their size made them too big of a target to dodge legal pressure.
There are bazillions of other sites who don’t (and often can’t) police anything of what they host unless they are threatened with litigation.
yeah, youtube is already there, but with the amount of copyright system abuse there are, I personally dont want others to become like youtube in regards to copyright/legality.
For this you need some pepper (i.e. a secret) to prevent doctoring.
The better option is an encrypted blob containing all relevant data and a timing component. Of course those thing do require effort. It makes it opaque for everyone but the server handling the redirect.
Surely it's darker than the earth facing side. I'm no rocket scientist, but I reckon at least some of the light the sun sends our way gets reflected. From experience, a moonless night sure feels darker than when the full moon is up.
The amount of reflected Earthlight would depend on your location on the Moon's nearside and the phase of the Earth.
The corollary of one side of the Moon always facing the Earth is that the Earth hangs in about the same place in the sky for any given point on the Moon's surface. Over a period of (earth) days the Earth's position would slightly but visibly oscillate due to libration [0]. This might slightly vary the incoming Earthlight (analogous to the Moon's illumination at the horizon vs. at the Zenith).
A much bigger effect, however, would be due to the phase of the Earth. As the Moon orbits it will sometimes be between the Earth and the Sun, sometimes further away. On the sun-side, the Earth would be more 'full' and thus there would be more light to reflect. This would significantly vary the incoming light.
A "full Earth" would coincide with the sun fully illuminating the far side of the Moon, and a "new Earth" would coincide with the sun fully illuminating the near side of the Moon, so wouldn't you only get maximum darkness anywhere on the Moon during a lunar eclipse?
However, counterintuitively, I think you'd be better off with a full Earth and no direct sunlight than a new Earth and full direct sunlight, making the near side a slightly better place for an optical telescope. The near side of the moon even has the opportunity to experience eclipses.
You're probably correct, but I also have know idea how much of a difference it would make.
One other advantage would also be the lack of atmospheric scattering, but they have made huge strides with adaptive optics so it might not be worth the extra cost of getting all the components to the Moon and assembling them.
You would also be limited by how close you could point the telescope to the Sun when it's in the sky. I think Hubble isn't allowed to point closer than 50 degrees for fear of damaging its optics/sensors.
This is exactly why i've bought a car stereo with android that also has normal volume buttons on the side etc, most of them handle everything by touch but a normal button is still a lot easier, better feedback..
