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Yes, since the moon is a scattering reflector, in fact the inverse square dropoff of moonlight is based on the distance from the moon.

Note that the article claims that no matter how much moonlight we are able to gather (i.e. we are allowed to overcome the inverse square law however much we want) we cannot create a temperature that will ignite paper.




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