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What could possibly go wrong?
by GrumpyNl 4y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
- ElijahLynn 4y agoThe article suggests that the bubbles are reversible if something does go wrong, and one of the safer options out there for reducing the amount of energy that is being captured by the atmosphere. It seems pretty hopeful to me, which is what we need right now. The climate trauma is intense these days. This is hope.
- ncmncm 4y agoReversing it at that point would make things radically worse.
- ElijahLynn 4y agoIt could, having the option is important here.
- btbuildem 4y agoHuman civilization could collapse to the point where we lose space exploration, then we're stuck with some space bubbles limiting how much sunlight the planet gets. As effects of climate change wear off, we are slowly plunged into an eternal, global ice age. All life on earth is exterminated, save for some most resilient microorganisms.
- marshray 4y agoMake them so that they automatically pop after a time unless they regularly receive a command from earth.
- ncmncm 4y agoOn the plus side, even attempting it guarantees civilization collapse. So there's that.
- NortySpock 4y agoThe proposed location for this space bubble system, Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1, is gravitationally unstable. Any device located there must actively maintain its location , using calculated thruster firings, generally on the order of months, or it will drift out of position in less than a year. So we're safe from that scenario. If the satellite loses power, it will just drift out of our line of site of the sun. No intervention required. Other active spacecraft located at L1: NOAA's DSCOVR climate observatory, and NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer Edited to add a visualization of the ACE spacecraft L1 orbit: https://izw1.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/DATA/browse-html/gse_color.html https://izw1.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/DATA/browse-html/gse_color....