No Sun, No Moon, No Night

China is planning to upgrade the moon. It plans to launch a fake moon or even several fake moons over the city of Chengdu so that the light from these spheres can help illuminate the city after dark. The writer of Revelation tells us about a similar city — one that has no sun, no moon and no night!

China is planning to upgrade the moon.

We know China has been advancing rapidly in technology, but upgrading the celestial nighttime orb? Really?

Well, that’s not quite what China is planning to do, but what their technologists have in mind is impressive nonetheless. They plan to launch a fake moon or even several fake moons — actually “illumination satellites” — over the city of Chengdu (population of 11.5 million), so that the light from these spheres can help illuminate the city after dark. Their light is supposed to be eight times brighter than moonlight and provide a dusk-like glow. If they work, it’s projected that they will lessen the need for street lamps and thus lower electricity costs.

While this may all sound far-fetched, China is not the first to try to light up the night from the sky above. Back in 1993, Russia proposed to spread an aluminum-covered plastic film in space, attached to a spacecraft to reflect sunlight back to earth...