Depends what you mean by "opposite"
The L1 Lagrange point is on the opposite side of the Earth from the L2 point, always facing the sun, if that's what you mean.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:37, archived)

I mean stationary at in a point in space
so yeah I guess that's what I'm getting at.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:52, archived)

Can't we just blow up the sun?
Most problems are easily and harmlessly solved with explosives.
( Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:57, archived)

If we blew up the sun everything would be absolutely fine and unchanged on Earth
for about 8 minutes, anyway.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 11:11, archived)

Unless you blew up the sun with sufficient energy to completely disperse it in space,
I think it would rapidly reform, because there's still a whole stellar mass in roughly the same space at the same time, blowing it up is just making it a lot less dense, briefly. Its centre of mass would still be in the same place...

It would be pretty angry for the next few billion years or so but subterranean microbes would probably survive and life would begin again.
( brb top shit, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 19:35, archived)

There is no such thing as stationary, not really.
If you somehow managed to achieve "true stationary", space dust would rip you to shreds in seconds.
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 12:44, archived)

There is no pen

(2 Can Chunder - Work account arbeit macht frei!, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 13:41, archived)

Stationary in relation to the rotating earth.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 13:55, archived)

You'd have to work out if that location would still be close enough for the Earth to still block the Sun.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 18:21, archived)

FFS you people need to get good at KSP.
You can have a sun-synchronous orbit that processes to match the rotation and orbit of the Earth's orientation relative to the sun.

The normal way to do it is to keep line of sight with the sun, to power the solar panels or to directly observe the sun itself. The same orbit offset by 180 degrees would keep the satellite in the Earth's shadow.
( brb top shit, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 19:27, archived)

Meh, science trolling isn't the fun it used to be.

( brb top shit, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 19:37, archived)

It is when you fall for it.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Sat 30 Nov 2024, 12:04, archived)

Please cite examples.

( brb top shit, Sat 30 Nov 2024, 15:47, archived)